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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.

Annual Meeting Update

The in-person SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 conference at UNC was canceled. The SFS Annual Meeting will take place as part of the virtual conference hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. 

Editor’s Choice 33(6)

The Editor’s Choice article for 33(6) is “Monetary Transmission through Shadow Banks” by Kairong Xiao. You can read the paper free online.

Gregor Matvos Joining the RFS Team

We are pleased to announce that Gregor Matvos will be joining RFS as an editor. Gregor is a Howard Berolzheimer Chair in Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Research Associate in the Corporate Finance group at NBER. His first day will be July 1.