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New Editor Appointment

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Gerard Hoberg as an Editor, beginning July 1, 2025. Jerry is the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Chair of Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business and Director of The Institute for Outlier Research in Business. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for the Review from 2015-2018. Please join us in welcoming Jerry.

New Editor Appointment

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Viral Acharya as an Editor, beginning September 1, 2025. Viral is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business, a Research Associate for NBER, a Research Affiliate for CEPR, and a Research Associate for ECGI. Viral was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2017 to 2019. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for… Read More »New Editor Appointment

Advisory Editor Position Available

An RFS advisory editor position is available for the next academic year; the start date is flexible.  The position is a particularly good fit for finance/economics post-docs or late-stage PhD students.  The primary task is to provide editorial support in the review process and requires about 10 hours per week with a minimum commitment for one year (or preferably for two years). The position allows working closely with the RFS… Read More »Advisory Editor Position Available

Data Editor Positions Available

The Society is seeking to appoint two Data Editors (junior/senior) to conduct post-acceptance/pre-publication checks to verify/validate the code and data submitted to Harvard Dataverse by authors of articles accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.  The aim of the journals’ code and data sharing policy is to promote the transparency, reproducibility and replicability of research published in the journals. Applicants should be familiar with multiple programming languages, including at least Stata,… Read More »Data Editor Positions Available

Registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025

The program and registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025 are now available on the conference website. The Cavalcade will take place May 19-22 at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Register by April 7 to pay the discounted registration fee. The registration fee is waived for PhD students.

RAPS & RCFS Keynote

RAPS & RCFS are pleased to announce Paola Sapienza (Stanford University) as the RAPS & RCFS Keynote Speaker at SFS Cavalcade North America 2025. This keynote will occur on Tuesday, May 20.

Decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025

The decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025 have been sent. We received 1537 submissions. The final program was highly selective, with an 9.4% acceptance rate. If you selected dual submission with RAPS or RCFS, you will receive a separate decision email from the journal in the next few weeks.

SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Awards

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Congratulations to the winners of the Best Paper Awards at SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2024: Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income: “Money Market Funds and the Pricing of Near-Money Assets” by Sebastian Doerr, Egemen Eren, and Semyon Malamud Best Paper in Asset Pricing: “Getting to the Core: Inflation Risks Within and Across Asset Classes” by Xiang Fang, Yang Liu, and Nikolai Roussanov Best Paper in Corporate Finance: “Inferring… Read More »SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Awards

New Editor Appointment

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Jessica Wachter as an Editor beginning January 22, 2025. Jessica is the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professor in Quantitative Finance at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and previously was Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She also previously served as an Associate Editor for the Review… Read More »New Editor Appointment

Cavalcade Review Deadline

Program Committee members for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025, please take note – reviews are due tomorrow, January 22.