RCFS welcomes Camelia Kuhnen as an Associate Editor. We are also pleased to announce that Daniel Paravisini, Steven Kaplan, and Bilge Yilmaz are continuing as Associate Editors. We thank retiring Associate Editor Viral Acharya. All changes are effective July 1, 2017, except Viral Acharya, whose term ended in 2016.
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.
RFS Editor Stijn van Nieuwerburgh contributed this morning to a Financial Times editorial entitled “Safe Bonds for Europe.” It advocates for a new financial innovation to foster greater stability for the financial system in Europe. See the full editorial here.
The Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Fragility will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Itay Goldstein. The deadline for paper submission is June 15, 2017. The conference will take place October 13–14, 2017, on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
The University of Oklahoma’s Price College Energy Institute and the Price College Center for Financial Studies are organizing the 2017 OU Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference. The conference will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Philip Strahan. The deadline for paper submission is 15 May 2017. The conference will take place September 29-30, 2017 on the OU campus in Norman, Oklahoma. The Call… Read More »2017 University of Oklahoma Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference
The new issue of RCFS 6(1) March 2017 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!
The RFS announces the creation of a novel two-stage editorial process designed to encourage researchers to engage in innovative research on the emerging topic of Climate Finance. The process is closely related to a “registered reports” format with a first-stage workshop to review accepted proposals and a second-stage conference to evaluate final papers. The conference organizers are Harrison Hong and José Scheinkman of Columbia University together with RFS editor, Andrew… Read More »Climate Finance – A Call for Proposals
The RFS would like to thank Professor Robin Greenwood, whose term as editor of the Review is ending January 31, 2017. We wish Robin all the best with his new endeavors.
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
