Editor’s Choice: March
The Editor’s Choice paper for March 2018 (issue 7/1) is “Identification is not Causality, and Vice Versa” by R. Kahn and Toni M. Whited. You can read the article free online here.
RFS FinTech Conference Program
The program is now available on the RFS FinTech Conference web site. The conference will take place March 16-17, 2018. There will be limited seats available for members of the public to attend.
Conference: The Financial Crisis Ten Years Afterwards
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.
SFS Cavalade Asia-Pacific 2019 Now Accepting Bids
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.
Editor’s Choice 31(2)
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.
RFS FinTech Conference
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
Review Deadline Approaching for Cavalcade NA 2018 Program Committee
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.
RFS Paper wins the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award For Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
“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!
Gregor Matvos’s Paper on Forbes
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.
Winners of the Cavalcade A-P Best Paper Awards
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