RFS News

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

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

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.

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.