The Editor’s Choice article for 32(11) is “The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers” by James O’Donovan, Hannes F. Wagner, and Stefan Zeume. You can read the paper free online.
Virtual Issue: Economic History
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on economic history features two RFS papers:
“Stock Volatility and the Great Depression” by Gustavo S. Cortes and Marc D. Weidenmier
“The History of the Cross-Section of Stock Returns” by Juhani T. Linnainmaa and Michael R. Roberts
The virtual issue is free to read until the end of December.
Bid Deadline
Today is the deadline to bid to host SFS Cavalcade North America in 2021. We invite you to submit your bid.
Editor’s Choice 32(10)
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(10) is “Life below Zero: Bank Lending under Negative Policy Rates” by Florian Heider, Farzad Saidi, and Glenn Schepens. You can read the paper free online.
Call for Papers: 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference
The Call for Papers for the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place February 28-29, 2020, at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri. The submission deadline is November 1, 2019.
Advisory Editor
We are pleased to welcome Scott Guernsey to the Advisory Editor team. Our advisory editors perform important tasks for new submissions, including the crucial task of recommending reviewers.
We are thankful to Dawoon Kim, who completed his role as an advisory editor on August 15. We wish him the best of luck in his next endeavor.
Editor’s Choice 32(9)
The Editor’s Choice article for 32(9) is “Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Savings or Foreign Taxes” by Michael W Faulkender, Kristine W Hankins, and Mitchell A Petersen. You can read the paper free online.
Wei Jiang in Financial Times
RFS Editor Wei Jiang’s opinion piece, “Investors can think long-term but managers are a harder case,” recently appeared in the Financial Times.
Bid to Host SFS Cavalcade North America 2021
The Society for Financial Studies invites you to bid to host SFS Cavalcade North America in 2021. Please read the Invitation to Bid for details. Bids must be received by October 1, 2019.
Call for Papers: The Financial Economics of Insurance
The Call for Papers for the NBER-RFS Conference on The Financial Economics of Insurance is available here. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place April 10-11, 2020. The RFS sponsoring editor is Ralph Koijen. The link to submit papers will be available in January 2020.
