RFS Editor Manju Puri will be the keynote speaker at the Showcasing Women in Finance – EU conference on November 22 at the University of Luxembourg. The conference highlights female role models in finance and is organized by AFFECT and the faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance at the University of Luxembourg.
The dual submission decisions for the 10th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission to RFS and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(11) is “The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers” by James O’Donovan, Hannes F. Wagner, and Stefan Zeume. You can read the paper free online.
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on economic history features two RFS papers: “Stock Volatility and the Great Depression” by Gustavo S. Cortes and Marc D. Weidenmier “The History of the Cross-Section of Stock Returns” by Juhani T. Linnainmaa and Michael R. Roberts The virtual issue is free to read until the end of December.
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(10) is “Life below Zero: Bank Lending under Negative Policy Rates” by Florian Heider, Farzad Saidi, and Glenn Schepens. You can read the paper free online.
The Call for Papers for the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place February 28-29, 2020, at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri. The submission deadline is November 1, 2019.
We are pleased to welcome Scott Guernsey to the Advisory Editor team. Our advisory editors perform important tasks for new submissions, including the crucial task of recommending reviewers. We are thankful to Dawoon Kim, who completed his role as an advisory editor on August 15. We wish him the best of luck in his next endeavor.
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(9) is “Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Savings or Foreign Taxes” by Michael W Faulkender, Kristine W Hankins, and Mitchell A Petersen. You can read the paper free online.
RFS Editor Wei Jiang’s opinion piece, “Investors can think long-term but managers are a harder case,” recently appeared in the Financial Times.
The Call for Papers for the NBER-RFS Conference on The Financial Economics of Insurance is available here. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place April 10-11, 2020. The RFS sponsoring editor is Ralph Koijen. The link to submit papers will be available in January 2020.
