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
The 2016 Society for Financial Studies Annual Meeting will take place at the 2016 Finance Cavalcade on Monday, May 16, 2016, at the University of Toronto.
Cavalcade 2017 is scheduled for May 15-18, 2017. The conference will begin on Monday, May 15, with an evening reception. Please note that this differs from Cavalcade 2016, which begins with an evening reception on Sunday. Keep in touch with any changes on the Cavalcade web site.
“Skewness Preference and Seasoned Equity Offers” by Don M. Autore and Jared DeLisle
The Editor’s Choice article for January 2016 (issue 29/1) is “… and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns” by Campbell R. Harvey, Yan Liu, and Heqing Zhu. You can read the article free online here.
The January issue of RFS, 29(1), contains a special section on meta-analysis of market anomalies. The section features: “… and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns” by Campbell R. Harvey, Yan Liu, and Heqing Zhu “Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model” by Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French “A Taxonomy of Anomalies and Their Trading Costs” by Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov The issue is available to read online here.
