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Review of Asset Pricing Studies

The Review of Asset Pricing Studies strives to publish the highest quality research in asset pricing, broadly construed. RAPS will evaluate papers based on their substantive original contribution to our understanding of the pricing of assets.


Editors

Zhiguo He: Stanford University (Executive Editor)
Riccardo Colacito: UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Norman Schürhoff: Swiss Finance Institute
Jules H. van Binsbergen: University of Pennsylvania


News from RAPS

  • RAPS Editor

    RAPS is pleased to announce that Joël Peress will serve as an editor of RAPS beginning November 1, 2024. Joel is a Professor of Finance and the Claude Janssen Chaired Professor of Business Administration at INSEAD.

    We are grateful to Jules H. van Binsbergen, who will be retiring from his editor role on November 1.


  • RAPS Dual Submission Decisions

    The RAPS dual submission decisions for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2024 have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission to RAPS and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.


  • Editorial Team Changes

    We thank Hui Chen, who has now retired as an Editor, and welcome Riccardo Colacito, who is joining the team in his place.

    We also thank the following Associate Editors, who have completed their terms: Anna Pavlova, Sophie Shive, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Terence Hendershott.

    And we welcome our incoming and renewing Associate Editors: Carole Compton-Forde, Andrea Vedolin and Frederico Belo.

    Changes were effective August 1.


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Conference Announcements

  • Call for Papers: The CUHK-RAPS-RCFS Conference on Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance

    Hong Kong, December 9-11, 2024

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School (CUHK Business School), the Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS), and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS) invite paper submissions for a conference to be held at CUHK Business School in Hong Kong during December 9-11, 2024. The first one and a half days will comprise the Corporate Finance segment of the program, while the second one and a half days will comprise the Asset Pricing segment of the conference. The middle day could also comprise papers that span both areas, depending on submissions.

    Professor Franklin Allen, Professor of Economics and Finance and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London, and Professor Clemens Sialm, Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay Regents Chair in Finance, University of Texas at Austin, will deliver keynote addresses at the conference.

    Non-local presenting authors of selected papers and discussants will be offered reimbursement for travel. The reimbursement will be capped at USD 2,000 for those with country of primary affiliation in North America, Europe or Australia/New Zealand. For those with primary affiliation in Asia (except Hong Kong), travel reimbursement will be capped at USD 1,000. Accommodation will be provided by the organizers at the nearby Hyatt Regency hotel for a maximum of 4 nights (December 8-11).   

    PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit papers in PDF format (including abstract, authors’ affiliations and contact information) by uploading their papers to the following links: 

    https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13690697

    (for submissions to the CUHK-RAPS segment of the program)

    https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13690695

    (for submissions to the CUHK-RCFS segment of the program)

    The submission deadline is August 31, 2024.

    DUAL SUBMISSION OPTION: In the submission, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication by RAPS or RCFS under the Dual Submission Program. This is a “no-fault” submission option: if the journals review the paper and reject it, the authors may submit it to any SFS journal at a later date as if it was never submitted. See https://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/  for details. 

  • IRMC 2024 Conference

    The Call for Papers for the IRMC 2024 Conference is now available. The conference, which features optional dual submission to RAPS, will take place June 24-25, 2024, in Milan. The submission deadline is April 12, 2024.