Bid to Host SFS Cavalcade North America 2020
The bidding period to host SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 opens today. Bids must be received by October 1, 2018. For details, please see the Invitation to Bid and visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2020.
2nd World Symposium on Investment Research
The 2nd World Symposium on Investment Research will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The submission period is open from October 20 to November 20, 2018. The conference will take place May 5-6, 2019, at Marriott Residence Inn Times Square. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
Editor’s Choice 31(8)
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(8) is “Real Effects of the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe: Evidence from Syndicated Loans” by Viral V. Acharya, Tim Eisert, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirschi. You can read the article free online.
Introducing Isil Erel
We welcome Isil Erel as an Editor of RCFS. Isil is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Please join us in welcoming Isil to the team.
Editor Efraim Benmelech
We extend our sincere thanks to Efraim Benmelech, who has retired as an Editor of RCFS. Effi has been with RCFS since the beginning and was an Editor for our inaugural issue. We thank him for his service to the journal.
Conference on Current Research in FinTech
The 2019 Conference on Current Research in FinTech will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The deadline for paper submissions is October 1, 2018. The conference will take place February 8-9, 2019, at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
SFS Council Updates
The SFS is pleased to announce the addition of two new council members: Alon Brav of Duke University and Kai Li of UBC Sauder School of Business.
Forthcoming Paper
“How should a Firm Go Public? A Dynamic Model of the Choice Between Fixed-Price Offerings and Auctions in IPOs and Privatizations” by Thomas J. Chemmanur and Mark H. Liu
Rising Scholar Award
RCFS is pleased to announce the addition of the Rising Scholar Award. Authors are eligible for the prize if no author on the submitted paper received either their current academic appointment or most recent Ph.D. more than 6 years prior to when the paper was submitted to RCFS. For more information, visit Rising Scholar.
Submission Fees for Dual Submission Papers
Please be advised of our new policy regarding dual submission papers. If your dual submission paper is invited to continue the submission process with the journal, the submission fee will be waived for the first round of submission to the journal. If there are subsequent rounds of submission, the standard submission fee will be required. This differs from our prior policy in which the fees were waived for dual submission… Read More »Submission Fees for Dual Submission Papers