The program for the NBER-RFS Inequality, Discrimination, and the Financial System conference is now available. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RFS, will take place online April 1-2, 2021. The RFS sponsoring editors are Gregor Matvos, Manju Puri, and Tarun Ramadorai. The conference will be live-streamed on NBER’s YouTube channel.
We are pleased to announce that Marcin Kacperczyk will be joining the RAPS team as an Editor. His first day will be July 1, 2021. Marcin is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College London. Please join us in welcoming Marcin!
“When and Where Is It Cheaper to Issue Inflation-linked Debt?” by Andrey Ermolov
The decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 have been sent. If you did not receive your decision, please contact us. We received 1566 submissions. The final program was highly selective, with an 8.6% acceptance rate. If you selected dual submission with RAPS or RCFS, you will receive a separate decision email from the journal in the next few weeks.
The dual submission decisions for the 3rd Future of Financial Information Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific will be postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19. We thank the hosts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Finance Institute, for their flexibility.
The program for the ECB-RFS Macro-Finance Conference is now available. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RFS, will take place March 22-23. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Ralph Koijen. You may register for the conference here.
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
In collaboration with our publisher, Oxford University Press, we have made our new Review Article free to read online. Read the introduction by Executive Editor Itay Goldstein and the Review Article, “Perspectives on the Future of Asset Pricing,” by Markus Brunnermeier, Emmanuel Farhi, Ralph S. J. Koijen, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Sydney C. Ludvigson, Hanno Lustig, Stefan Nagel, and Monika Piazzesi.
The SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 conference will take place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The SFS Annual Meeting will take place as part of the virtual conference.
