SFS News

The SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017 submission period is now open. To submit, please visit Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017. The deadline for submissions is July 20, 2017. Click here to view the Call for Papers. Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features dual submission with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is… Read More »Submission Period for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017 is Now Open!

The bidding period to host SFS Cavalcade North America 2019 will begin July 1, 2017. Bids must be received by October 1, 2017. For details, please see the Invitation to Bid and visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2019.

The winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America. We are pleased to now share the winners: Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance “Import Competition and Household Debt” Jean-Noel Barrot, Erik Loualiche, Matthew Plosser, Julien Sauvagnat Prize: $1000 Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing “Risk Preferences and The Macro Announcement Premium” Hengjie Ai and Ravi Bandal Prize: $1000 The Arthur Warga Award for… Read More »Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

SFS President Matt Spiegel’s term is ending on June 30. Current SFS Vice President Laura Starks will be the new President. Josef Zechner will be the new Vice President. In addition, the SFS welcomes the following new Councilors: Renee Adams, Allaudeen Hameed, Tarun Ramadorai, and Karin Thorburn. We thank our retiring Councilors: Alex Butler and Amy Dittmar. All changes are effective July 1, 2017.

The 2017 Society for Financial Studies Annual Meeting will take place at the 2017 Finance Cavalcade at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, May 17, 2017.

Beginning January 24, we are putting our check payments temporarily on hold for all three journals. This is due to both staff leave and updates being made to our bank accounts. During this time, referee payments and author refunds will not be sent out. We will resume sending payments June 1, 2017. If you complete a referee report or receive a refund credit during this time, it will be noted… Read More »Announcement for Referees and Authors re: Check Payments

The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce that the host of Cavalcade 2018 will be Yale University. The conference will be held May 21-24, 2018. Congratulations to Yale on their winning bid!

If you are a member of the SFS Cavalcade North America 2017 Program Committee, please be reminded that your reports are due today, January 18.

The dates for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017 will be December 13-15. The conference will be held at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China.