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Can We Always Invest Like Mr. Spock, and Not Homer Simpson?

[This is another of a series of editorials by Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi at the Review of Financial Studies featuring recently published papers at the journal. This editorial features “Confusion of Confusions: A Test of the Disposition Effect and Momentum” by The Ohio State University’s Justin Birru, an article in Issue 28(7) for July 2015. It was selected as an Editor’s Choice article on the Oxford University Press web site… Read More »Can We Always Invest Like Mr. Spock, and Not Homer Simpson?

Associate Editor Changes

Beginning today, July 1, RFS welcomes the following Associate Editors: Hui Chen, Todd Gormley, Zhiguo He, Gerard Hoberg, Victoria Ivashina, Dirk Jenter, Amiyatosh Purnanandam, and Paul Tetlock. We thank our retiring Associate Editors: Peter Christoffersen, Mariassunta Giannetti, Eitan Goldman, John Griffin, Wei Jiang, Simi Kedia, and Berk Sensoy.

Editor’s Choice: July

The Editor’s Choice article for July 2015 (issue 28/7) is “Confusion of Confusions: A Test of the Disposition Effect and Momentum” by Justin Birru. You can read the article free online here.

Andrew Karolyi in Financial Times

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi’s paper is featured on the Financial Times Alphaville blog in a post titled, “The mysterious decline in the number of US public companies.” Read the blog post online here.

Change to Submission Fees and Referee Payments

The fee for submitting to an SFS journal (RAPS, RCFS, or RFS) will be increasing on July 1, 2015. The new submission fee will be $240 for members and $300 for nonmembers. Accordingly, we’ll also be increasing our referee payments. The new referee payment for an on-time report will be $200, beginning July 1.

Itay Goldstein in Reuters

RFS Editor Itay Goldstein’s reseach was featured in a recent Reuters piece, “Corporate bond funds + illiquidity = risk.” Read the article online here.

Winners of the RFS Awards

The winners of the RFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception on Tuesday, May 19, at the SFS Finance Cavalcade Conference. We are pleased to now share the winners: Distinguished Referee Award  Zhi Da, Doron Levit, Andrey Malenko, Gregory Nini, Adi Sunderam, Sheri Tice, and Liyan Yang Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award “High-Frequency Trading and Price Discovery” by Jonathan Brogaard, Terrence Hendershott, and Ryan Riordan Prize: $20,000 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up “Financial Market Dislocations” by Paolo Pasquariello… Read More »Winners of the RFS Awards

LaTeX Style Files Now Available

We are happy to announce that our publisher has made LaTeX style files available to help authors format their papers according to RFS style. You can reach the files on our publisher’s web site or on our web site under Accepted Papers. Please note: these files are for formatting your accepted paper. When submitting a paper, you will still need to follow the guidelines for submissions. Please contact Jaclyn with any… Read More »LaTeX Style Files Now Available

Executive Editor Blog: Non-Marketable Assets and Capital Market Equilibrium – Redux

A new installment of Andrew Karolyi’s Executive Editor blog is now available. This month’s feature, “Non-Marketable Assets and Capital Market Equilibrium – Redux” examines “Human Capital as an Asset Class Implications from a General Equilibrium Model” by Miguel Palacios. Visit the RFS Executive Editor Blog to read the post.

Non-Marketable Assets and Capital Market Equilibrium – Redux

[This is another of a series of editorials by Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi at the Review of Financial Studies featuring recently published papers at the journal. This editorial features “Human Capital as an Asset Class Implications from a General Equilibrium Model” by Vanderbilt University’s Miguel Palacios. This paper is from Issue 28 (4) for April 2015. It was selected as an Editor’s Choice article on Oxford University Press web site for RFS.] As… Read More »Non-Marketable Assets and Capital Market Equilibrium – Redux