RFS is pleased to welcome the following Associate Editors: Kenneth Ahern, Zhi Da, Vyacheslav Fos, Kai Li, Nadya Malenko, Veronika Pool, Alexi Savov, and Michela Verardo. We thank our retiring Associate Editors: Hui Chen, Todd Gormley, Zhiguo He, Gerard Hoberg, Victoria Ivashina, Dirk Jenter, Amiyatosh Purnanandam, and Paul Tetlock. All changes are effective July 1, 2018.
The winners of the RFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America on May 23. We are pleased to share the winners: Distinguished Referee Awards Ralph Koijen, Eric Zwick Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award “Does Hedging Affect Firm Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment” Erik Gilje and Jérôme Taillard Prize: $20,000 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up “The Freedom of Information Act and the Race Toward Information Acquisition” Antonio… Read More »Winners of the RFS Awards
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(6) is “The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information” by Marieke Bos, Emily Breza, and Andres Liberman. You can read the article free online.
The Review of Financial Studies, Columbia University Department of Economics, and the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School are organizing a Climate Finance conference on October 5 & 6, 2018 at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London. The conference funded by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) will feature the completed papers from the RFS Climate Finance Call for Proposals and the proposals workshop at Columbia University… Read More »Call for Completed Papers for RFS Conference on Climate Finance
The 2019 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management” will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Francesca Cornelli. The deadline for paper submissions is September 16, 2018. The conference will take place March 28‐30, 2019, at Bocconi University in Milan. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
Together with the Fama-Miller Center at Chicago Booth and EDHEC, RFS will co-host a conference on “New Methods for the Cross Section of Returns.” The conference will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Stijn van Nieuwerburgh and Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for papers is June 15, 2018. The conference will take place September 27-28, 2018, at the Gleacher Center of the Booth School of Business at the University of… Read More »Conference on New Methods for the Cross Section of Returns
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(5) is “Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work” by Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. You can read the article free online.
“Does a CEO’s Cultural Heritage Affect Performance under Competitive Pressure?” by Duc Duy Nguyen, Jens Hagendorff, and Arman Eshraghi, which published in RFS issue 31(1), was featured in Forbes in a piece titled, “New Study Links A CEO’s Cultural Heritage With Corporate Performance.” Read the article online here.
