We are sad to report that Rick Green died on October 9th due to cancer. He was a Professor of Financial Economics and the Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Chair at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a great friend, colleague, and mentor to many. He made intellectual contributions in a wide range of areas and particularly in mutual funds, market microstructure, and taxation.… Read More »In Memoriam: Rick Green
The Editor’s Choice article for November 2015 (issue 28/11) is “The Sovereign Wealth Fund Discount: Evidence from Public Equity Investments” by Bernardo Bortolotti, Veljko Fotak, and William L. Megginson. You can read the article free online here.
Today is the last day to send your bid for Cavalcade 2017. For more information, please visit Cavalcade 2017.
“Asset Fire Sales by Banks: Evidence from Commercial REO Sales” by Yongqiang Chu and “Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis? Regulating Bank Leverage When There Is Rent-seeking and Risk-shifting” by Viral Acharya, Hamid Mehran, and Anjan Thakor
The Editor’s Choice article for October 2015 (issue 28/10) is “The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes” by Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, and Hyunseob Kim. You can read the article free online here.
The 26th Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will feature a dual submission option with RCFS. The conference will take place February 4-6, 2016.
The program for the 2015 Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Crises, which features a dual submission option with RFS, is now available online at http://whartonliquidity.org/about/registration/2015-program/ Registration is now open. If you want to participate, please register here: https://whartonfic.wufoo.com/forms/liquidity-and-financial-crisis-registration/ by September 22.
The Editor’s Choice article for September 2015 (issue 28/9) is “Financing Constraints and the Amplification of Aggregate Downturns” by Daniel Carvalho. You can read the article free online here.
The Call for Papers for Cavalcade 2016 is now available on the Cavalcade 2016 web site.
RFS Editor Itay Goldstein will be the keynote speaker at the fourth Oxford Financial Intermediation Theory Conference (OxFIT) on Wednesday, September 16, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom. For more, visit the conference web site.
