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.
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.
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 selective, with an 11% acceptance rate. Congratulations to the authors selected for presentation at the conference!
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.
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.
The Editor’s Choice article for 33(2) is “Financial Frictions and the Great Productivity Slowdown” by Romain Duval, Gee Hee Hong, and Yannick Timmer. You can read the paper free online.
RFS extends our gratitude to retiring editor Wei Jiang, who is completing her term at the end of the month. Wei has been an editor with RFS since 2017 and previously served as an associate editor.
We are pleased to announce that Tarun Ramadorai will be joining RFS as an editor. Tarun is a professor of financial economics at Imperial College London, a research fellow of CEPR, a senior academic fellow of ABFER, and a nonresident senior fellow at NCAER. He previously served as an associate editor of RFS. His first day will be March 1.
The Editor’s Choice article for 33(1) is “On the Effects of Restricting Short-Term Investment” by Nicolas Crouzet, Ian Dew-Becker, and Charles G. Nathanson. You can read the paper free online.
The deadline for submissions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 is today, December 9, 2019. Please be sure to begin your submission in plenty of time to finish it before the deadline.
SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2019 is taking place today through December 8 at the University of Hong Kong.
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