RAPS is pleased to announce that Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University) will be the RAPS Keynote Speaker at Cavalcade North America 2019. Professor O’Hara’s speech will take place Tuesday, May 21, at 3:45pm. For more details, please see the program on the Cavalcade web site once it is posted in March.
The decisions for Cavalcade North America 2019 have been sent. The program and registration will be posted on the Cavalcade web site in March. We received 1221 submissions, which was a 6.9% increase over last year. The final program was highly selective, with an 11.1% acceptance rate. Congratulations to the authors selected for presentation at the conference!
The Editor’s Choice paper for March 2019 (issue 8/1) is “Information: Hard and Soft” by José María Liberti and Mitchell A Petersen. You can read the article free online here.
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(3) is “Financing Entrepreneurial Production: Security Design with Flexible Information Acquisition” by Ming Yang and Yao Zeng. You can read the article free online.
The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce that the host of SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 will be the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference will be held May 25-28, 2020. Congratulations to UNC on their winning bid!
Accommodations for Cavalcade North America 2019 are posted on the web site. The hotel blocks have expirations, with the first expiring on February 28 and the last expiring on April 23, so please be sure to book in advance.
The Conference on Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation will feature a dual submission option with RCFS. The deadline for paper submissions is March 1, 2019. The conference will take place June 3-4, 2019, in Hong Kong. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
Congratulations are in order! RFS Editor Francesca Cornelli has been chosen as the new dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. With her new role starting this summer, Francesca will be stepping down from her RFS editor role as of May 1. She will continue to handle submissions in process but will stop taking on new submissions at that time. We thank Francesca for her nearly five years of service… Read More »Francesca Cornelli to be Dean of Kellogg School of Management
“Interest Rates and Inflation Revisited” by Eugene F Fama
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on trade and economics features “Securities Trading in the Absence of Dealers: Trades and Quotes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange” by Yasushi Hamao and Joel Hasbrouck, from the July 1995 issue of RFS. The virtual issue is free to read online until the end of March on Oxford’s web site.
