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17th Annual Texas Finance Festival

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The 17th Annual Texas Finance Festival will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Itay Goldstein. The deadline for paper submissions is January 15, 2015. The conference will take place April 23-25, 2015. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

LaTeX Programmer

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We’re looking to hire an experienced LaTeX programmer to help with our style files. If you are interested or know someone who is, please have them contact Jaclyn Einstein.

The Curious Incident of the Absence of News…and How it Matters for Prices

[This is another of a series of editorials by Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi at the Review of Financial Studies featuring forthcoming or recent papers at the journal. This editorial features “No News is News: Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?” by the University of Chicago Booth’s Stefano Giglio and Kelly Shue, lead article in Issue 27 (12) for December 2014. It was selected as an Editor’s Choice article on the Oxford University Press… Read More »The Curious Incident of the Absence of News…and How it Matters for Prices

Itay Goldstein in The Financial Times

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RFS Editor Itay Goldstein is mentioned in a recent article in The Financial Times. You can read the article at “Why a house-price bubble means trouble.”

RFS Authors Featured on OUP Blog

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Authors Chen Xue, Kewei Hou, and Lu Zhang are featured on the Oxford University Press blog in a post titled, “A new benchmark model for estimating expected stock returns,” based on their paper, “Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach,” which is forthcoming in RFS. To accompany the post, we’ve made the paper free to read online! Check out the blog post here and read the paper here.

Laura Starks in The National Law Review

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SFS Vice President and former RFS Editor Laura Starks was featured in a Q&A for The National Law Review on the topic of investor activism. You can read the article at “Perspectives on investor activism.”

Submission Period is Now Open for Cavalcade 2015

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The Cavalcade 2015 submission period is now open. To submit, please visit Cavalcade 2015. The deadline for submissions is midnight PST December 8, 2014. Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

24th Mitsui Finance Symposium: Financial Intermediaries and Markets

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The 24th Mitsui Finance Symposium: Financial Intermediaries and Markets will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Stefan Nagel. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2015. The conference will take place May 29-31, 2015. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

Editor’s Choice: December

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The Editor’s Choice article for December 2014 (issue 27/12) is “No News Is News: Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?” by Stefano Giglio and Kelly Shue. You can read the article free online here.