The Editor’s Choice article for May 2015 (issue 28/5) is “New Evidence on the Financialization of Commodity Markets” by Brian J. Henderson, Neil D. Pearson, and Li Wang. You can read the article free online here. The Editor’s Choice article for June 2015 (issue 28/6) is “Capital Account Opening and Wage Inequality” by Mauricio Larrain. You can read the article free online here.
Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi’s new book, “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma,” will launch May 15, 2015, at a special event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. For more, visit www.emergingmarketsenigma.com.
We’ll be announcing the winners of this year’s RFS awards at the Awards Reception held on May 19th at Cavalcade 2015. The RFS Awards include the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award Winner & Runner Up, the Rising Scholar Award, the RFS Referee of the Year Award, and RFS Distinguished Referee Awards. To see winners from previous years, visit RFS Awards.
The 2015 Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Crises will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Itay Goldstein. The deadline for paper submission is June 15, 2015. The conference will take place October 9-10, 2015. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi will be the keynote speaker at the Conference on Culture and Finance at Wake Forest University on April 16, 2015. For more, visit the conference web site.
RFS Editor Itay Goldstein will be the keynote speaker at the conference on The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial Reform hosted jointly by the Center for Financial Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and The Clearing House. The conference will be held May 11, 2015. For more, click here.
The Editor’s Choice article for April 2015 (issue 28/4) is “Human Capital as an Asset Class Implications from a General Equilibrium Model” by Miguel Palacios. You can read the article free online here.
We are pleased to announce that Cornerstone Research has pledged to continue their support for the Referee of the Year and Distinguished Referee Awards for 2015. The Review of Financial Studies is grateful to Cornerstone Research, who have been supporting these awards since 2010. The awards will be presented at Cavalcade 2015. To see past award winners, visit RFS Awards.
The Review of Financial Studies is pleased to announce the continued support of Research Affiliates for the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award and the Rising Researcher Prize. We are grateful to Research Affiliates for their continued support. The awards will be presented at Cavalcade 2015. To see past award winners, visit RFS Awards.
Register for the Cavalcade by March 31 to pay the early registration fee of $100 for SFS members or $140 for nonmembers. Registration fees increase on April 1! Register online at Cavalcade 2015.
