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Submission Period for Cavalcade North America is Open!

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The submission period for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 is now open. To submit, please visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2021. The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2020. Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features a dual submission option with the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

RAPS and RCFS Expand to 4 Issues

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We are pleased to announce that the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies have made the decision to begin publishing four issues per year, starting in 2021. Both journals have experienced a sustained influx of high quality submissions, allowing an increase in our annual number of published papers.

RAPS Expands to 4 Issues

We are pleased to announce that the Review of Asset Pricing Studies has made the decision to begin publishing four issues per year, starting in 2021. RAPS has experienced a sustained influx of high quality submissions, allowing an increase in our annual number of published papers.

RCFS Expands to 4 Issues

We are pleased to announce that the Review of Corporate Finance Studies has made the decision to begin publishing four issues per year, starting in 2021. RCFS has experienced a sustained influx of high quality submissions, allowing an increase in our annual number of published papers.

Forthcoming Paper

“Zero-Coupon Yields and the Cross-Section of Bond Prices” by Nathaniel Aaron Pancost

Forthcoming Paper

“Dividends versus Stock Repurchases and Long-Run Stock Returns under Heterogeneous Beliefs” by Onur Bayar, Thomas J. Chemmanur, and Mark H.  Liu

Updates for Cavalcades 2021 and 2022

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Due to COVID-19, SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be held virtually. The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, which won the bid to host 2021, will instead host SFS Cavalcade North America 2022.

Paper Spotlight: Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market

Investors increasingly rely on proxy advisors such as ISS in deciding how to vote in corporate elections. In the paper “Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market,” Shichao Ma and Yan Xiong construct a theoretical model to examine the biases that can arise when the proxy advisor is a profit-maximizer. An intuitive finding is that a conflicted proxy advisor provides biased recommendations. More interestingly, if shareholders have either distorted preferences… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market

Keynote by Manju Puri at FINEST Conference

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RFS Editor Manju Puri will be giving the keynote speech at the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies 2020 Autumn Workshop, which will be held November 30-December 1. For details, see the FINEST web site.