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2014 News Archive

October 29, 2014: Recent Keynote Speech by RFS Associate Editor

RFS Associate Editor Thierry Foucault was recently a keynote speaker at the 13th International Conference on Credit Risk Evaluation.

October 28, 2014: AQR Insight Award Call for Papers

AQR Capital Management, LLC is accepting submissions for its fourth annual AQR Insight Award, which recognizes and rewards important, unpublished academic papers that best address challenges facing institutional investors. Up to three papers will share a $100,000 prize. Deadline for entries is January 15, 2015. Learn more at 2015 AQR Insight Award Call for Papers or at AQR Insight Award.

October 9, 2014: Upcoming Keynote Speeches

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi will be the keynote speaker at the 3rd Luxembourg Asset Management Summit, November 16-18, 2014. For more, click here.

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi, Editor Geert Bekaert, and Associate Editor John Griffin will be keynote speakers at the 27th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney on December 15, 2014. For more, click here.

October 1, 2014: Editor’s Choice: November

The Editor’s Choice article for November 2014 (issue 27/11) is “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: The Inefficient Performance and Persistence of Commodity Trading Advisors” by Geetesh Bhardwaj, Gary B. Gorton, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. You can read the article free online here.

September 26, 2014: Executive Editor Blog: Tail Risk is Not Crash Risk…or Is It?

The second installment of Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi’s new series of editorials is available online at RFS Executive Editor Blog. This month’s feature, “Tail Risk is Not Crash Risk…or Is It?” examines “Tail Risk and Asset Prices” by Bryan Kelly and Hao Jiang.

September 22, 2014: Sign Up for RFS Alerts

Did you know you can sign up to receive email notifications every time an issue ofRFS publishes online or an RFS article publishes on Advance Access? It’s easy! Create a free account at our publisher’s web site and select the items you’d like to be notified about.

September 19, 2014: 2015 OU Energy Finance Research Conference

The 2015 OU Energy Finance Research Conference will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Philip Strahan. The paper submission period will be January 1-March 16, 2015. The conference will take place September 10-11, 2015.

September 17, 2014: Bid Deadline for 2016 Cavalcade Approaching

The bid deadline for the 2016 Cavalcade is approaching. For details on how to bid, please visit 2016 Cavalcade. Bids should be received by October 1, 2014.

September 16, 2014: Editor’s Choice: October

The Editor’s Choice article for October 2014 (issue 27/10) is “Tail Risk and Asset Prices” by Bryan Kelly and Hao Jiang. You can read the article free online here.

September 15, 2014: Do You Want to Receive the SFS Newsletter?

Are you interested in receiving the Society for Financial Studies newsletter, with news about The Review of Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies,  The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the SFS Finance Cavalcade conference? If so, find out how to become a member of the SFS at Membership.

September 9, 2014: Geert Bekaert in Forbes

RFS Editor Geert Bekaert was interviewed for a recent article in Forbes: “What Your Investment Portfolio Is Likely Lacking” by Richard Eisenberg.

September 8, 2014: Keep in Touch with RFS on Twitter

Our publisher tweets news from RFS and the Society for Financial Studies. To see more, follow @OxfordJournals and @OUPEconomics on Twitter.

September 5, 2014: Have You Seen Our New Blog?

If you haven’t read the latest Executive Editor blog post yet, there’s still time. View the post, “Finance’s Other Bosses,” at RFS Executive Editor Blog.

September 4, 2014: Cavalcade Bid Deadline for Approaching

The bid deadline for the 2016 Cavalcade is October 1, 2014. For details on how to bid, please visit 2016 Cavalcade.

September 2, 2014: RFS papers featured in Virtual Issue: The Eurozone Crisis

Have you seen the Oxford University Press virtual issue on the Eurozone Crisis, featuring papers published in RFS? The issue is free to read online at The Eurozone Crisis, and includes the following RFS papers:

“Fiscal Policy and Asset Prices with Incomplete Markets”
by Francisco Gomes, Alexander Michaelides, and Valery Polkovnichenko

“Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Mutual Funds”
by Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam

“Effects of Central Bank Intervention on the Interbank Market During the Subprime Crisis”
by Celso Brunetti, Mario di Filippo, and Jeffrey H. Harris

August 29, 2014: RFS Executive Editor at Luxembourg Asset Management Summit

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi will be the keynote speaker at the 3rd Luxembourg Asset Management Summit, November 16-18, 2014. For more, click here.

August 28, 2014: Executive Editor Blog: Finance’s Other Bosses?

Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi has begun a new series of editorials about forthcoming or recent RFS papers. His first editorial, “Finance’s Other Bosses?”, examines “The Labor Market for Bankers and Regulators” by Vincent Glode and Philip Bond. To view the post, visit the RFS Executive Editor Blog here.

August 27, 2014: Editor’s Choice: September

The Editor’s Choice article for September 2014 (issue 27/9) is “The Labor Market for Bankers and Regulators” by Philip Bond and Vincent Glode. You can read the article free online here.

August 26, 2014: RFS Editors to Deliver Keynote Speeches at Australasian Finance and Banking Conference

RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi, Editor Geert Bekaert, and Associate Editor John Griffin will be keynote speakers at the 27th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney on December 15, 2014. For more, click here.

July 8, 2014: RFS Top-Ranked Journals by Google Scholar

Google released its 2014 Scholar Metrics, which provide citation information based on the h5-index. RFS received the top ranking with an h5-index of 116, which means that out of all articles published from 2009-2013, there were 116 RFS articles that obtained at least 116 Google Scholar citations. You can view the complete list at Google Scholar Finance.

July 1, 2014: Farewell, and Bon Voyage!

Letter from Executive Editor David Hirshleifer
Having completed my term as Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, I’m glancing up and taking a deep breath, but trying not to break the rhythm of the sprint until things really start winding down. Still, I want to take a moment to thank those who have served the profession so generously by contributing to the RFS. Continues here.

June 30, 2014: 5th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference

The 5th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel. The paper submission deadline is August 31, 2014. The conference will take place December 14-16, 2014, and will feature Matthew Rabin (UC-Berkeley) as keynote speaker.

June 3, 2014: Converting the Archive to HTML with MathJax

The SFS Council voted to pay Oxford University Press to convert the entire archive of RFSRAPS, and RCFS articles into state-of-the-art full text HTML files including equations rendered using the Java-based “MathJax” web standard. The new file format will allow equations (and the rest of the article) to scale from 4-inch screens to 30-inch screens, which will facilitate their use on smartphones, tablets, etc.

May 30, 2014: Award Winners

The following awards were announced at the 2014 Cavalcade:

Michael J. Brennan Best Paper, sponsored by Research Affiliates
“Managers with and without Style: Evidence Using Exogenous Variation”
Charles J. Hadlock, Joshua R. Pierce, and C. Edward Fee
Prize: $20,000

Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up, sponsored by Research Affiliates
“Short Selling and the Price Discovery Process”
Juan (Julie) Wu and Ekkehart Boehmer 
Prize: $5000

RFS Rising Scholar Award, sponsored by Research Affiliates
“The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest”
Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam 
Prize: $5000

RFS Referee of the Year, sponsored by Cornerstone Research
Gerard Hoberg
Prize: $1000

RFS Distinguished Referee Awards, sponsored by Cornerstone Research
Laurent Fresard
Todd Gormley
Wei Jiang
Justin Murfin
Allan Timmermann
Heather Tookes
Mark Westerfield

May 29, 2014: Upcoming Changes

The RFS announces the appointment of our new Associate Editors, who will begin their terms on July 1: Joao Cocco, Robert Dittmar, Thierry Foucault, Ron Kaniel, Ralph Koijen, Hanno Lustig, Richard Sias, and Toni Whited.

We thank the outgoing Associate Editors: Ekkehart Boehmer, Bruce Carlin, Craig Doidge, Alex Edmans, Darren Kisgen, and Philip Strahan.

May 5, 2014: Thank You to RFS Editors

We want to thank outgoing RFS Executive Editor David Hirshleifer and outgoing Editors Geert Bekaert, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Laura Starks, for their outstanding service to the Review.  We also thank Andrew Karolyi for his outstanding service as RFS Editor, as he moves from this position to take the helm as Executive Editor. We all wish them great success in their next endeavors.

May 1, 2014: Incoming RFS Editors

We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new Editors for The Review of Financial Studies who will begin their terms on July 1, 2014. They are Francesca Cornelli (London Business School), Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School), Stefan Nagel (University of Michigan), and Philip Strahan (Boston College). They will join incoming Executive Editor, Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University), and continuing Editors David Denis (University of Pittsburgh), Itay Goldstein (Wharton School), and Leonid Kogan (MIT).

April 21, 2014: Sign Up for RFS Alerts

Did you know you can sign up to receive email notifications every time an issue ofRFS publishes online or an RFS article publishes on Advance Access? It’s easy! Create a free account at our publisher’s web site and select the items you’d like to be notified about.

April 8, 2014: Last Days to Book Your Cavalcade Hotel!

There are only a few days left to book your hotel room within the SFS room blocks for the Finance Cavalcade. If you have not booked your room, please make sure you book before the blocks run out. Hotel information is available here.

April 2, 2014: Dual Submission Opportunity

The RFS is please to announce a dual submission opportunity with the 2014 Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Crises, which will take place October 10-11, 2014, at the University of Pennsylvania. The submission deadline is June 1, 2014. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

March 25, 2014: Final Week for Early Registration!

Register for the Cavalcade by April 1 to pay the early registration fee of $100 for SFS members or $140 for nonmembers. Registration fees increase on April 2!Register here.

March 14, 2014: Cavalcade Program Now Available

Have you checked out this year’s Cavalcade program? Visit the 2014 SFS Finance Cavalcade web site to view the papers that will be presented in May! If you haven’t registered for the Cavalcade, you can also register and book your hotel on the Cavalcade site. Register by April 1 to pay the early registration fee.

March 11, 2014: Email Communication

We updated our email server last week. While efforts were made to capture every email sent during the transition, we know complications are possible. If you sent any emails to Jaclyn Einstein last week that have not received responses, please re-send.

March 6, 2014: Executive Editor Change for RFS

The Executive Editor of the RFS, Prof. David Hirshleifer, is completing his term on June 30. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Andrew Karolyi will be the new Executive Editor of the RFS beginning July 1. Prof. Karolyi joined the RFS editorial team in August 2010, and is the Alumni Professor in Asset Management and Professor of Finance at Cornell University, as well as the Faculty Director of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell. Please join us in welcoming Prof. Karolyi to his new role.

February 6, 2014: RFS Post-Doctoral Position

The RFS post-doctoral position is available for the next academic year. The position will begin July 1. Job responsibilities include recommending referees and ensuring all formatting guidelines are met prior to processing submissions. If you are interested in the position or know somebody who is, please have them contactJaclyn Einstein for additional details. Deadline to apply is May 31, 2014, but the position will only remain open until a candidate is identified.

February 6, 2014: Register for the 2014 Cavalcade

Registration is now available on the Cavalcade site. Register by April 1 to pay the early registration fee of $100 for SFS members or $140 for nonmembers. Registration fees increase on April 2!

January 28, 2014: Special Issue: Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation

Be sure to check out RFS Special Issue 27(1): Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation with special issue editor Paolo Fulghieri. The special issue is free to read online!

January 23, 2014: Color Figure Charge

Effective January 1, 2014, the charge per figure for including a color figure in theThe Review of Financial Studies has been dropped in half to $300!

January 13, 2014: RFS Paper by Chalmers and Reuter Wins TIAA-CREF Award

The RFS congratulates John Chalmers and Jonathan Reuter on winning the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security for their paper, “How Do Retirees Value Life Annuities? Evidence from Public Employees,” which published in RFS. We’ve made the paper free online; to read the paper, click here. For more on the award, see here.