RFS Editor Update
Due to unforeseen personal circumstances, Gerard Hoberg will be stepping down from his appointment to the RFS editorial board. We wish him all the best.
RFS News
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms” by Hao Jiang, Dimitri Vayanos, and Lu Zheng
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects” by Falk Brauning,Victoria Ivashina, and Ali Kivilcim Ozdagli
New RFS Issue 38(7)
The July issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Digital Tokens and Platform Building” by Jiasun Li and William Mann
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Payment for Order Flow and Option Internalization” by Thomas Ernst and Chester S. Spatt
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Too Good to Be True: Look-ahead Bias in Empirical Options Research” by Jefferson Duarte, Christopher S. Jones, Mehdi Khorram, Haitao Mo, and Junbo Wang
New Membership System
The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to launch our new membership system. Members will be able to purchase 1-year memberships, 3-year memberships, or student memberships. Our submission systems will automatically recognize memberships and remind you when you need to renew. The new system was not able to move current memberships over, which means all accounts are starting from scratch. We apologize for the inconvenience! If you purchased a membership recently,… Read More »New Membership System
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Financial Intermediaries and The Yield Curve” by Andres Schneider
RFS Data Editors
RFS has appointed Patrick Weiss (Reykjavik University, Tidy Finance) and Christoph Scheuch (Tidy Finance) as Data Editors. They will begin on August 1, 2025. The editors will review code and data to ensure replicability in accordance with RFS policies.
RFS Editorial Changes
As noted previously, Jessica Wachter (University of Pennsylvania) joined the RFS team as an Editor on January 22, Gerard Hoberg (USC Marshall School) will be joining July 1, and Viral Acharya (NYU Stern) will begin September 1. RFS is very grateful to Manju Puri and Holger Mueller, who are retiring from the RFS team. Manju ended her role on May 7 and Holger will be retiring September 1. Both have… Read More »RFS Editorial Changes