RFS News

The RFS announces the creation of a novel two-stage editorial process designed to encourage researchers to engage in innovative research on the emerging topic of FinTech. The process is closely related to a “registered reports” format with a first-stage workshop to review accepted proposals and a second-stage conference to evaluation final papers. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein, Wei Jiang, and Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for proposals is March… Read More »FinTech – A Call for Proposals

The 19th Annual Texas Finance Festival will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The deadline for paper submissions is January 15, 2017. The conference will take place April 20-22, 2017. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

The 2017 Conference on Banks, Systemic Risk, Measurement and Mitigation will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Francesca Cornelli. The deadline for paper submission is November 30, 2016. The conference will take place March 16-18, 2017 at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

RFS Editor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh has won the Bernacer Prize! The Bernacer Prize is awarded annually to a European economist under 40. Stijn received the award for his research on the transmission of shocks in the housing market on the macro-economy and the prices of financial assets. Congratulations Stijn!

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi is highlighted in the Financial Times in a piece titled, “Norway’s oil fund warns on lack of stock market listings.” Read the piece online here.

A new installment of Andrew Karolyi’s Executive Editor blog is now available. This month’s feature, “Trust, But Verify…in Venture Capital,” examines “The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital” by Laura Bottazzi, Marco Da Rin, and Thomas Hellmann. Visit the RFS Executive Editor Blog to read the post.

The RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Wei Jiang as an editor of the Review, beginning January 1, 2017. Wei is Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise as well as Vice Dean for Curriculum and Instruction at Columbia Business School. She previously served as an Associate Editor for the Review as well as the SFS Cavalcade Conference Chair in 2015. Please join us in welcoming Wei to her new role.