The 2018 Conference on “The Financial Crisis Ten Years Afterwards” will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Andrew Karolyi and Itay Goldstein. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2018. The conference will take place August 2-3, 2018, at the Yale School of Management. The Call for Proposals may be viewed here.
The Society for Financial Studies is now accepting bids for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2019. The bidding period runs through April 1, 2018. For details, please see the Invitation to Bid and visit SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2019.
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(2) is “Robust Bond Risk Premia” by Michael D. Bauer and James D. Hamilton. You can read the article free online.
The Review of Financial Studies will host a Conference on Financial Technology at the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, New York City. The event will take place in the Tata Innovation Center, March 16-17, 2018. The conference will feature the completed papers from the RFS FinTech Call for Proposals and the proposals workshop at Columbia University in May 2017. There will be limited seats available for members of… Read More »RFS FinTech Conference
Attention: Program Committee Members for SFS Cavalcade North America 2018! Please note that your reviews are due one week from today. The deadline to submit your reviews is January 18, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact cavalcadenorthamerica@sfs.org.
“Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?” was recently announced as the winner of the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award For Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. This paper was published in RFS issue 30(6) June 2017 and can be read online here. We congratulate the authors: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian!
Editor Gregor Matvos’s paper, “The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct,” is featured on Forbes.com in a post by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. The paper is co-authored with Mark Egan and former RCFS Editor Amit Seru. You can view the post online here.
The winners of the SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Best Paper Awards were announced at Cavalcade A-P last month. We are pleased to share the winners: Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance Sponsored by Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance “Credit, Labor, and Political Unrest: Evidence from 1930s China” Fabio Braggion, Alberto Manconi, and Haikun Zhu Prize: $1000 Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing Sponsored by WRDS “Leverage Network and Market Contagion” Jiangze Bian,… Read More »Winners of the Cavalcade A-P Best Paper Awards
The 20th Annual Texas Finance Festival will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2018 at 2pm. The conference will take place April 19-21, 2018 at the Horseshoe Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
If you are a member of the SFS Cavalcade North America 2018 Program Committee, please be aware that the reviewer assignments were sent out today. If you have not received your assignments, please contact cavalcadenorthamerica@sfs.org. Reviews are due by January 18, 2018.
