Cavalcade Decisions Have Been Sent
The decision letters for the 2015 Cavalcade have been sent. We received 866 submissions, which was a 32% increase over the number of submissions last year. The acceptance rate was 10.4%.
SFS News
Forthcoming Book by Andrew Karolyi
Congratulations to RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi on the publication of his book, “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma.” The book will be available in May. For more, visit the publisher’s web site here.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us at the Society for Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and The Review of Financial Studies.
Location for Cavalcade 2016
The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce that the host of Cavalcade 2016 will be the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Congratulations to Rotman on their winning bid!
Last Day to Submit to Cavalcade 2015
Today is the last day to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2015. The submission system will stop allowing submissions at 11:59pm EST.
Cavalcade 2015 Submission Deadline Approaching
There is only one week left to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2015! The deadline for submissions is December 8, 2014. To submit, visit Cavalcade 2015.
Dual Submission to Cavalcade 2015
Did you know that Cavalcade 2015 features a dual submission option with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies? The submission deadline is December 8, 2014. For details, visit Cavalcade 2015.
December 2014 Issue of RAPS
The December issue of RAPS has now published online. View the issue here and check out the Editor’s Choice article, “Rating-Based Investment Practices and Bond Market Segmentation,” by Zhihua Chen, Aziz A. Lookman, Norman Schürhoff, and Duane J. Seppi here for free!
Cavalcade Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance
The SFS is happy to announce that the sponsor for the 2015 SFS Finance Cavalcade Award for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance will be the Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School, in honor of Jerome A. Chazen. Papers submitted to Cavalcade 2015 are eligible to win this award, which comes with a $1000 prize.
RFS Authors Featured on OUP Blog
Authors Chen Xue, Kewei Hou, and Lu Zhang are featured on the Oxford University Press blog in a post titled, “A new benchmark model for estimating expected stock returns,” based on their paper, “Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach,” which is forthcoming in RFS. To accompany the post, we’ve made the paper free to read online! Check out the blog post here and read the paper here.