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Cavalcade Keynotes

Don’t miss the keynote speeches at next week’s virtual Cavalcade: Tuesday May 26, 3:45pm RAPS Keynote by Campbell Harvey (Duke), “Tortured Data” Wednesday May 27, 12pm Cavalcade Keynote by Antoinette Schoar (MIT), “Consumer Financial Protection as Whack-a-mole” Wednesday May 27, 3:45pm RCFS Keynote: Thomas Philippon (NYU), “Efficient Programs to Support Businesses during Crises” Thursday May 28, 12pm Keynote by Amir Yaron (Bank of Israel, University of Pennsylvania) All times are in EDT.

Annual Meeting Update

The in-person SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 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. 

Gregor Matvos Joining the RFS Team

We are pleased to announce that Gregor Matvos will be joining RFS as an editor. Gregor is a Howard Berolzheimer Chair in Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Research Associate in the Corporate Finance group at NBER. His first day will be July 1.  

Webinar: An Evaluation of the Fed-Treasury Credit Programs

On Monday, May 11 at 12:30 PM EST, Jeremy Stein will join a webinar, co-hosted by the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and the Society for Financial Studies, on the COVID-19 credit programs recently implemented by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. Stein is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a former Governor of the Federal Reserve. The event will begin with a brief discussion by Markus… Read More »Webinar: An Evaluation of the Fed-Treasury Credit Programs

Registration is Open for Virtual Cavalcade

Registration for the virtual SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 conference is now open on the Cavalcade web site. Registration is free. Please make sure to register using your academic email address. The conference will take place May 25-28, 2020, hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Register by May 20.

SFS Journals on Twitter

RAPS and RCFS have joined Twitter! You can now follow all the SFS journals on Twitter. RAPS: @RevOfAssetPric RCFS: @RevOfCorpFin RFS: @RevOfFinStudies

SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 to be Held Virtually

We are excited to announce that SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 will take place on Zoom this May. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has offered to be our virtual host. We are looking forward to hosting the Cavalcade online. Details for online registration will be posted on the Cavalcade web site as soon as they’re available. 

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection

Oxford University Press presents the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection, featuring papers from RAPS, RCFS, and RFS. The following papers are included: RAPS -Firm Creation and Destruction, and Asset Prices by Jan Bena, Lorenzo Garlappi, and Patrick Grüning RCFS -Corporate Innovation and Returns by Jan Bena and Lorenzo Garlappi -Lending to Innovative Firms by Sudheer Chava, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao RFS -Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship… Read More »Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection

FinTech & Innovation Collection

The SFS presents our FinTech & Innovation Collection, featuring papers from RAPS, RCFS, and RFS. The featured papers are free to read on Oxford University Press’s web site.

Winning Bid for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2020

SFS is pleased to announce that SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2020 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen, China. This decision is based on the assumption that the world will be back to normal by December 2020.