RFS News

RFS is pleased to announce the new Hillcrest Best Paper Prize for the best paper in Behavioral Finance published in the Review of Financial Studies. The prize, which will be presented for the first time in 2019, will be sponsored by Hillcrest Asset Management, an institutional investment management firm and a leader in the field of Behavioral Finance investing. RFS is the first top finance journal to offer a Behavioral… Read More »RFS Announces Behavioral Finance Award Sponsored by Hillcrest Asset Management

Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on housing economics features three RFS papers: “Housing Price Booms and Crowding-Out Effects in Bank Lending” by Indraneel Chakraborty, Itay Goldstein, and Andrew MacKinlay “Mortgage Supply and Housing Rents” by Pedro Gete and Michael Reher “Housing Demand During the Boom: The Role of Expectations and Credit Constraints” by Tim Landvoigt The virtual issue is free to read online until the end of September on … Read More »Virtual Issue: Housing Economics

The 2nd World Symposium on Investment Research will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The submission period is open from October 20 to November 20, 2018. The conference will take place May 5-6, 2019, at Marriott Residence Inn Times Square. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

The Editor’s Choice article for 31(8) is “Real Effects of the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe: Evidence from Syndicated Loans” by Viral V. Acharya, Tim Eisert, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirschi. You can read the article free online.

The 2019 Conference on Current Research in FinTech will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The deadline for paper submissions is October 1, 2018. The conference will take place February 8-9, 2019, at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

“Equity Vesting and Investment,” which published in RFS issue 30(7), was referred to on CNBC on June 19 in a segment with SEC commissioner Robert Jackson. The paper’s authors are Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang, and Katharina A. Lewellen. The video is available to view online. This paper is an Editor’s Choice selection, which means you may also read the paper for free online.

The RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Ralph Koijen as an editor of the Review, beginning September 1, 2018. Ralph is a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Please join us in welcoming Ralph to his new role.

RFS is pleased to share that our latest impact factor has risen to 4.270. Our publisher, Oxford University Press, has curated an online collection of highly-cited articles, which you can read for free on their web site.