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Matt Spiegel’s Presidential Term Ends

The SFS is thankful to Matt Spiegel, who is concluding his term as President today. Matt has been SFS President since 2014. His history with the SFS and its journals is extensive. Matt served as SFS Vice President from 2011-2014 and as the Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies from 2005-2011. He is responsible for founding the SFS Cavalcade conference, which just hosted its seventh conference and is expanding this year… Read More »Matt Spiegel’s Presidential Term Ends

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