The Society of Financial Studies Council believes that we cannot remain silent about the continued acts of racism that exist in our society. We acknowledge the numerous voices of the peaceful protesters and are determined to not let this moment pass without contributing to a changed society. In particular, the future of a robust financial system lies on the path of justice and equity. We are actively investigating ways to… Read More »Statement of the SFS Council
The SFS is happy to announce that the Vice Chair for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific will be Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Associate Chair will be Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong). They join Chair Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University). The 2020 conference has been postponed to 2021.
The SFS is happy to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School). Professor Ivashina joins Chair Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley) and Vice Chair Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA).
SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, which was to take place December 11-13, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. We thank the hosts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Finance Institute, for their flexibility.
We welcome the following associate editors to the RCFS team: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Jonathan Cohn (University of Texas at Austin) Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia) Andrey Malenko (University of Michigan) Paige Oiumet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Giorgia Piacentino (Columbia University) Adriano Rampini (Duke University) Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford).
Dimitri Vayanos and Clemens Sialm have been renewed for 3-year terms as associate editors. We thank Pietro Veronesi, who is retiring as an associate editor.
We extend our gratitude to Philip Strahan and Stijn Van Niewerburgh, who are retiring as editors of RFS. Phil has been an editor since 2014 and Stijn since 2016. Both previously served as associate editors. We thank them for their service to the journal. We are pleased to share that Lauren Cohen has been renewed for another 3-year term as an editor. We are also grateful to our retiring associate… Read More »Editorial Team Changes
We are pleased to announce that Stefano Giglio will be joining RFS as an editor. Stefano is a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, an NBER Research Associate, and a CEPR Research Affiliate, and previously served as an associate editor of RFS. His first day will be July 1.
The Review of Corporate Finance Studies is introducing a Prior Review Process. The goal of such review process is to help the editors arrive at a quick and informed decision on a paper based on feedback received by the authors from previous submissions. A paper is eligible for this optional review process if it was previously submitted to a few select journals. Starting on June 1, 2020, when you submit… Read More »Introducing the Prior Review Process
RCFS extends our gratitude to retiring editor Gregor Matvos. Gregor has been an editor with RCFS since 2016. We thank him for his service.
