The decision letters for Cavalcade 2016 have been sent. We received 977 submissions, which was a 12.8% increase over the number of submissions last year. The acceptance rate was 12.3%. If you selected Dual Submission, you will receive a separate decision email from RAPS or RCFS within the next few weeks.
We are preparing the decision emails for Cavalcade 2016. We will post on the web site when the emails have been sent.
[This is another of a series of editorials by Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi at the Review of Financial Studies featuring recently published papers at the journal. This editorial features “Financing Constraints and the Amplification of Aggregate Downturns” by Daniel Carvalho of the University of Southern California, an article in Issue 28(9) for September 2015. It was selected as an Editor’s Choice article on the Oxford University Press web site for… Read More »Understanding the Mechanics of Contagion in Financial Markets
A new installment of Andrew Karolyi’s Executive Editor blog is now available. This month’s feature, “Understanding the Mechanics of Contagion in Financial Markets” examines “Financing Constraints and the Amplification of Aggregate Downturns” by Daniel Carvalho. Visit the RFS Executive Editor Blog to read the post.
RAPS Editor Jeffrey Pontiff was interviewed for a piece in the Boston Globe titled, “As stocks fall, what should investors do?” Read the article online here.
The Fifth Symposium on Emerging Financial Markets: China and Beyond will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for paper submission is February 15, 2016. The conference will take place May 25 & 26, 2016, in Hong Kong, China. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
The Editor’s Choice article for February 2016 (issue 29/2) is “Who Facilitated Misreporting in Securitized Loans?” by John M. Griffin and Gonzalo Maturana. You can read the article free online here.
If you are a member of the Cavalcade 2016 Program Committee, please be reminded that the due date for your reports is approaching. The due date for all reports is January 18, 2016.
Authors Campbell R. Harvey, Yan Liu, and Heqing Zhu are featured on the Oxford University Press blog in a post titled, “Separating investment facts from flukes,” based on their paper, “…and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns,” which is in the January 2016 issue of RFS. To accompany the post, we’ve made the paper free to read online! Check out the blog post here and read the paper here.
A new working paper titled “Do Acceptance and Publication Times Differ Across Finance Journals?” by Craig Holden examines the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to final-round acceptance for the top-20 finance journals and top-tier business journals. He finds that the two fastest finance journals are the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, with median acceptance times of 7.3 months and 7.8 months,… Read More »New Paper Examines Speeds for Top Finance Journals
