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Winners of the RFS Awards

The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26 as part of the Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners: Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award “Credit Supply and the Rise in College Tuition: Evidence from the Expansion in Federal Student Aid Programs” David O. Lucca, Taylor Nadauld, and Karen Shen Prize: $10,000 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up  “The Value of Offshore Secrets:… Read More »Winners of the RFS Awards

Winners of the RAPS Awards

The winners of the annual RAPS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26 as part of the Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award “A Fresh Look at Return Predictability Using a More Efficient Estimator” Travis Johnson Prize: $10,000 Referee of the Year Svetlana Bryzgalova Prize: $1000 Rising Scholar Award “Quantitative Easing and Equity Prices: Evidence from the ETF Program of the Bank of Japan” Andrea… Read More »Winners of the RAPS Awards

Winners of the RCFS Awards

The winners of the annual RCFS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26 as part of the Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award “Deposit Insurance, Bank Risk-Taking, and Failures: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century State Deposit Insurance Systems” Felipe Aldunate Prize: $10,000 Referee of the Year Chotibhak Jotikasthira Prize: $1000 For the first time ever, RCFS awarded the Rising Scholar Award, which is… Read More »Winners of the RCFS Awards

Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

The winners of the SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 Best Paper Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper in Corporate Finance “Financial Technology Adoption” Sean Higgins Prize: $1000 Best Paper in Asset Pricing “Forest through the Trees: Building Cross-Sections of Stock Returns” Svetlana Bryzgalova, Markus Pelger, and Jason Zhu Prize: $1000 The Arthur Warga Award for Best… Read More »Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

Code Sharing Policy

The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) is enacting a Code Sharing Policy for papers accepted for publication, which will be effective on July 1, 2020. The policy is available here. This policy reflects the commitment of the RFS to the highest standards of quality, as we believe that the policy will help improve the reproducibility and replicability of published research and by this will support the credibility and impact of… Read More »Code Sharing Policy

Cavalcade Keynotes

Don’t miss the keynote speeches at next week’s virtual Cavalcade: Tuesday May 26, 3:45pm RAPS Keynote by Campbell Harvey (Duke), “Tortured Data” Wednesday May 27, 12pm Cavalcade Keynote by Antoinette Schoar (MIT), “Consumer Financial Protection as Whack-a-mole” Wednesday May 27, 3:45pm RCFS Keynote: Thomas Philippon (NYU), “Efficient Programs to Support Businesses during Crises” Thursday May 28, 12pm Keynote by Amir Yaron (Bank of Israel, University of Pennsylvania) All times are in EDT.

RAPS Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Financial Markets

The editors of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies invite submissions of papers related to the COVID-19 pandemic, financial markets, and asset pricing for a special issue that will be published in 2020. All subscribers to RAPS will receive the special issue at no extra cost. The issue will include an introduction by Lars Peter Hansen. We seek impactful papers that will provide foundations for future financial COVID-19 research. The deadline to submit papers is June 6, 2020. The submission fee will… Read More »RAPS Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Financial Markets

Academic Audios

The Review of Financial Studies is now featured on Academic Audios, which produces narrated audios of research papers, including the abstract, introduction, and conclusion. As described on their website, this allows “you to learn the motivation for the paper, its background, the issue or question being addressed, and the results,” all in an audio format.