Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us at the Society for Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and The Review of Financial Studies.
RFS News
Editor’s Choice: January
The Editor’s Choice article for January 2015 (issue 28/1) is “The Sum of All FEARS Investor Sentiment and Asset Prices” by Zhi Da, Joseph Engelberg, and Pengjie Gao. You can read the article free online here.
Miami Behavioral Finance Conference Dual Submissions with RFS
If you requested dual submission with RFS for your submission to the 2014 Miami Behavioral Finance Conference, you should have received a decision email on November 11. If you have not received your decision email, please contact Jaclyn Einstein.
17th Annual Texas Finance Festival
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
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.
Cavalcade 2015 Submission Deadline Approaching
There is only one week left to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2015! The deadline for submissions is midnight PST December 8, 2014. To submit, visit Cavalcade 2015.
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
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
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
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.”