Today is the last day to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2016. The submission system will stop allowing submissions at midnight PST. Please ensure you begin your submission early enough to allow time to complete the submission before the deadline.
The Editor’s Choice article for December 2015 (issue 5/2) is “Managerial Activeness and Mutual Fund Performance” by Hitesh Doshi, Redouane Elkamhi, and Mikhail Simutin. You can read the article free online here.
“How Does Corporate Investment Respond to Increased Entry Threat” by Laurent Fresard and Philip Valta
The RFS congratulates Professor Stefan Nagel, who has been appointed as the new Editor of the Journal of Finance. We thank Professor Nagel for his service as a co-editor of the Review and we wish him the best in his new role. Professor Nagel will no longer be taking on new submissions beginning yesterday, December 1, 2015. He will continue to handle submissions that are currently in process. If you have any… Read More »Upcoming Editor Change
There is only one week left to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2016! The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2015. To submit, visit Cavalcade 2016.
The 18th Annual Texas Finance Festival will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Itay Goldstein. The deadline for paper submission is January 15, 2016. The conference will take place April 28-30, 2016. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
The RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Stijn van Nieuwerburgh as an editor of the Review, beginning January 1, 2016. Stijn is Professor of Finance, Yamaichi Faculty Fellow, and Director of the Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research at the Stern School of Business at NYU. Please join us in welcoming Stijn to his new role.
The RFS would like to thank Professor Leonid Kogan, whose term as editor of the Review is ending December 31, 2015. We wish Leonid all the best with his new endeavors.
A new paper by Sebastian Reinartz and Daniel Urban ranks 45 finance conferences based on subsequent success of papers presented at those conferences in getting published in top journals. They find that 62% of SFS Cavalcade papers were subsequently published in the top 3 finance journals, compared to 40% for the AFA, 28% for the WFA, 21% for FIRS, and 21% for the EFA. Thus, they conclude that “the Society… Read More »SFS Cavalcade is the Best Large Finance Conference
The Editor’s Choice article for December 2015 (issue 28/12) is “Active Ownership” by Elroy Dimson, Oğuzhan Karakaş, and Xi Li. You can read the article free online here.
