SFS News

Given the ongoing uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, regrettably we have decided the SFS Cavalcade North America will not be held in person at UNC. We are exploring the possibility of holding it as a virtual conference and we will provide more information when it becomes available.  Please cancel any hotel reservations you have made at the Rizzo Center by going to https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/RDUDH/G-L049   Below the “find rooms” link is another link… Read More »Updated Statement Regarding the SFS Cavalcade

We are planning to proceed with SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 and the safety of the participants is a top priority. We are in hopes that by late May the outbreak will have been contained and not pose a threat. We plan to continually reevaluate whether we need to change the plans based on public health guidance.  We suggest that participants may want to consider whether they should delay booking… Read More »Regarding the Current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the SFS Cavalcade

The program and registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 are now available on the conference web site. The Cavalcade will take place May 25-28 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Register by April 15 to pay the discounted registration fee of $175 for members or $225 for nonmembers. The registration fee is waived for doctoral students (from any university) and UNC faculty members.

The decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 have been sent. If you did not receive your decision, please contact us. If you selected dual submission with RAPS or RCFS, you will receive a separate decision email from the journal in the next few weeks. The program, registration, and hotel information will be posted on the Cavalcade web site in March. We received 1231 submissions. The final program was highly… Read More »Decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020

Reviews for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 are due today.

The winners of the SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2019 Best Paper Awards are: Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance “Freeze! Financial Sanctions and Bank Responses” Matthias Efing, Stefan Goldbach, and Volker Nitsch Prize: $1000 Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing “Expectations in the Cross Section: Stock Price Reactions to the Information and Bias in Analyst-Expected Returns” Johnathan Loudis Prize: $1000 The Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income “How… Read More »Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

[Updated May 21, 2020] The in-person conference at UNC was canceled. The SFS Annual Meeting will take place as part of the virtual conference hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.  [December 16, 2019] The 2020 Society for Financial Studies Annual Meeting will take place at SFS Cavalcade North America at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2020.  

Paper assignments for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 were sent to the program committee today. Reviews are due January 20.

The submission period for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 has ended. For information on the conference, please visit Cavalcade North America 2020. If you submitted a paper, you can expect to receive a decision in February.