SFS News

The 2016 Society for Financial Studies Annual Meeting will take place at the 2016 Finance Cavalcade on Monday, May 16, 2016, at the University of Toronto.

Cavalcade 2017 is scheduled for May 15-18, 2017. The conference will begin on Monday, May 15, with an evening reception. Please note that this differs from Cavalcade 2016, which begins with an evening reception on Sunday. Keep in touch with any changes on the Cavalcade web site.

If you are a member of the Cavalcade 2016 Program Committee, please be aware that the reviewer assignments have been sent out. If you have not received your assignments, please contact Jaclyn Einstein. Reviews are due by January 18, 2016.

The submission period for Cavalcade 2016 has ended. For information on the conference, please visit the Cavalcade 2016 web site.

Today is the last day to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2016. The submission system will stop allowing submissions at midnight PST. Please ensure you begin your submission early enough to allow time to complete the submission before the deadline.

There is only one week left to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2016! The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2015. To submit, visit Cavalcade 2016.

A new paper by Sebastian Reinartz and Daniel Urban ranks 45 finance conferences based on subsequent success of papers presented at those conferences in getting published in top journals. They find that 62% of SFS Cavalcade papers were subsequently published in the top 3 finance journals, compared to 40% for the AFA, 28% for the WFA, 21% for FIRS, and 21% for the EFA. Thus, they conclude that “the Society… Read More »SFS Cavalcade is the Best Large Finance Conference

The Cavalcade 2016 submission period is now open. To submit, please visit Cavalcade 2016. The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2015. Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features dual submission with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Details are available at  Cavalcade 2016. Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce that the host of Cavalcade 2017 will be Vanderbilt University’s Financial Markets Research Center at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Congratulations to Vanderbilt on their winning bid!

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming SFS Finance Cavalcade conference will again offer a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. For details, visit Cavalcade 2016.