SFS News

The SFS is pleased to announce the addition of two new council members: Alon Brav of Duke University and Kai Li of UBC Sauder School of Business.

We are very pleased to announce that Andrew Ellul has agreed to serve as the next Executive Editor of RCFS. His term will begin July 1, 2018. Previously Andrew was Associate Editor and Editor of the Review of Finance. Andrew is Professor of Finance and Fred T. Greene Chair in Finance at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. A more complete bio and his publications can be found at https://kelley.iu.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/profile.html?id=ANELLUL.

We are very pleased to announce that Itay Goldstein has agreed to serve as the next Executive Editor of RFS. His term will begin July 1, 2018. Itay joined the RFS editorial team in 2013 as an Editor. Before that he served as Department Editor for Management Science and Editor for the Journal of Financial Intermediation.  He is currently Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, and the Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family… Read More »Introducing RFS Executive Editor Itay Goldstein

The Society of Financial Studies would like to thank our Executive Editors that have recently retired or are retiring at the end of June: Wayne Ferson (retired from RAPS effective January 1, 2018), Paolo Fulghieri (retiring from RCFS effective July 1, 2018), and Andrew Karolyi (retiring from RFS effective July 1, 2018). A more formal thank you to each of these Executive Editors is posted on the journal webpages at… Read More »Executive Editors

Heitor Almeida’s keynote speech, Is It Time To Get Rid of Earnings‐per‐Share (EPS)?, presented at Cavalcade North America 2018, is now available on our web site.

SFS Council Chair Adlai Fisher’s term is ending on June 30. We thank him for his service to the Society. Raman Uppal will be the new Council Chair. Council Member Renee Adams has been renewed for a three-year term. All changes are effective July 1, 2018.

The winners of the SFS Cavalcade North America Best Paper Awards were announced at the Awards Reception on May 23 at SFS Cavalcade North America. We are pleased to share the winners: Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance “For Richer, For Poorer: Banker’s Skin-in-the-game and Risk Taking in New England, 1867-1880” Peter Koudijs and Laura Salisbury Prize: $1000 Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing “What do fund flows reveal about asset pricing models… Read More »Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

SFS Cavalcade North America is this week at Yale from May 21-24. View our program online.

SFS Cavalcade North America begins next Monday, May 21, with a reception at 6pm at the Peabody Museum. Have you registered yet? Register online at Cavalcade NA 2018.