Jeffrey Pontiff in The Boston Globe
RAPS Executive Editor Jeffrey Pontiff is quoted in The Boston Globe: “Six questions about the stock market meltdown.”
Regarding the Current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the SFS Cavalcade
We are planning to proceed with SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 and the safety of the participants is a top priority. We are in hopes that by late May the outbreak will have been contained and not pose a threat. We plan to continually reevaluate whether we need to change the plans based on public health guidance. We suggest that participants may want to consider whether they should delay booking… Read More »Regarding the Current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the SFS Cavalcade
Program and Registration for Cavalcade North America 2020
The program and registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 are now available on the conference web site. The Cavalcade will take place May 25-28 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Register by April 15 to pay the discounted registration fee of $175 for members or $225 for nonmembers. The registration fee is waived for doctoral students (from any university) and UNC faculty members.
Dual Submission Decisions for the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference
The dual submission decisions for the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
Decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020
The decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 have been sent. If you did not receive your decision, please contact us. 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 program, registration, and hotel information will be posted on the Cavalcade web site in March. We received 1231 submissions. The final program was highly… Read More »Decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020
New RCFS Issue: 9(1)
The new issue of RCFS, 9(1), has published. The Editor’s Choice paper is “How Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates for Collateral?” by Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, José María Liberti, and Jason Sturgesss. Editor’s Choice papers are free to read online.
Special Issue: Climate Finance
Issue 33(3) of RFS is a special issue, edited by Harrison Hong, G. Andrew Karolyi, and José A. Scheinkman. This special issue is the result of a 2017-8 initiative by the RFS editorial team to develop research proposals on Climate Finance. The editorial is free to read online. The Editor’s Choice paper is “Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change” by Michael Barnett, William Brock, and Lars Peter Hansen.
Recap of the Yale-RFS Conference on Real and Private-Value Assets
The International Center for Finance at Yale has posted a recap of the Yale-RFS Conference on Real and Private-Value Assets. The conference took place January 31, 2020, at the Yale School of Management. Read the recap and see the photos here.
Program for the Australian National University Conference on Asset Pricing 2020
The program for the Australian National University Conference on Asset Pricing 2020 is available online. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RAPS, will take place March 26-28, 2020, at the QT hotel in Canberra, Australia. For more details, visit the conference web site.
Forthcoming Paper
“Do Proxies for Informed Trading Measure Informed Trading? Evidence from Illegal Insider Trades” by Kenneth R. Ahern