SFS News

Oxford University Press presents the Responses to Economic Shocks Collection, featuring papers from RAPS, RCFS, and RFS. The following papers are included: RAPS -Preventing Controversial Catastrophes by Steven D. Baker, Burton Hollifield, and Emilio Osambela -Economic Uncertainty and Interest Rates by Samuel M. Hartzmark RCFS -How Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates for Collateral? by Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, José María Liberti, and Jason Sturgess -The Financial Crisis of… Read More »Responses to Economic Shocks Collection

On July 1, Antoinette Schoar became the SFS President and Wei Jiang became the SFS Vice President. Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She also served in chairing roles for SFS Cavalcade North America from 2017-2019. Wei Jiang is the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School. She was an… Read More »SFS President and Vice President

Josef Zechner completed his term as Vice President on June 30. Before serving as Vice President, Josef was on the Council. Tarun Ramadorai completed his term on the Council on June 30. He has taken on an editor role at RFS, and previously served as an associate editor at RFS. We are grateful to Josef and Tarun for their service.     Craig Holden has been renewed as Secretary/Treasurer. He… Read More »Council Changes

We are extremely grateful to Laura Starks, who completed her role as SFS President on June 30. Since 1997, Laura has served in five different roles across the SFS and our journals. Her guidance and commitment have been invaluable. Prior to serving as President, Laura was SFS Vice President, SFS Council Chair, an editor of RFS, and an associate editor of RFS. We thank her for her dedication.

Videos of the keynotes and paper presentations at Cavalcade North America 2020 are now available on the Cavalcade web site. Our thanks to the Kelley Learning Media team at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University for preparing the videos.

The Society of Financial Studies Council believes that we cannot remain silent about the continued acts of racism that exist in our society. We acknowledge the numerous voices of the peaceful protesters and are determined to not let this moment pass without contributing to a changed society. In particular, the future of a robust financial system lies on the path of justice and equity. We are actively investigating ways to… Read More »Statement of the SFS Council

The SFS is happy to announce that the Vice Chair for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific will be Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Associate Chair will be Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong). They join Chair Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University). The 2020 conference has been postponed to 2021.

The SFS is happy to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School). Professor Ivashina joins Chair Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley) and Vice Chair Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA).

SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, which was to take place December 11-13, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. We thank the hosts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Finance Institute, for their flexibility.