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Announcing the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2018

We are pleased to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2018 will be Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University). Professor Piazzesi will join Chair Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania) and Vice Chair Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Virtual Issue: Culture and Economics

Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on culture and economics features two RFS papers: Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations by Raymond Fisman, Yasushi Hamao, and Yongxiang Wang What’s in a Name? Mutual Fund Flows When Managers Have Foreign-Sounding Names by Alok Kumar, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Oliver G. Spalt The virtual issue is free to read online until the end of July on Oxford’s web site.

Editor’s Choice 30(7)

The Editor’s Choice article for 30(7) is “Equity Vesting and Investment” by Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang, and Katharina A. Lewellen. You can read the article free online.

2016 Impact Factor

The 2016 Impact Factors have been released and we are pleased to report that RFS’s Impact Factor increased to 3.689.

Forthcoming Paper

“Why Do Firms Sit on Cash? An Asymmetric Information Approach” by Milton Harris and Artur Raviv 

Submission Period for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017 is Now Open!

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!

Bid to Host SFS Cavalcade North America 2019

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.

Forthcoming Paper

“Lending to Innovative Firms” by Sudheer Chava, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao