The program is now available on the RFS FinTech Conference web site. The conference will take place March 16-17, 2018. There will be limited seats available for members of the public to attend.
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Conference: The Financial Crisis Ten Years Afterwards
The 2018 Conference on “The Financial Crisis Ten Years Afterwards” will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Andrew Karolyi and Itay Goldstein. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2018. The conference will take place August 2-3, 2018, at the Yale School of Management. The Call for Proposals may be viewed here.
Editor’s Choice 31(2)
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(2) is “Robust Bond Risk Premia” by Michael D. Bauer and James D. Hamilton. You can read the article free online.
RFS FinTech Conference
The Review of Financial Studies will host a Conference on Financial Technology at the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, New York City. The event will take place in the Tata Innovation Center, March 16-17, 2018. The conference will feature the completed papers from the RFS FinTech Call for Proposals and the proposals workshop at Columbia University in May 2017.
There will be limited seats available for members of the public to attend. Please see the full details here.
RFS Paper wins the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award For Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
“Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?” was recently announced as the winner of the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award For Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. This paper was published in RFS issue 30(6) June 2017 and can be read online here. We congratulate the authors: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian!
20th Annual Texas Finance Festival
The 20th Annual Texas Finance Festival will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2018 at 2pm. The conference will take place April 19-21, 2018 at the Horseshoe Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
Francesca Cornelli Named Fellow of the ECGI
RFS Editor Francesca Cornelli has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. From the announcement by the London Business School:
“The ECGI awards the title of Fellow to individuals who have demonstrated scientific excellence or other outstanding achievements in the area of corporate governance.”
You can read the full announcement here.
Editor’s Choice 30(12)
The Editor’s Choice article for 30(12) is “Does Hedging Affect Firm Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment” by Erik P. Gilje and Jérôme P. Taillard. You can read the article free online.
Call for Completed Papers for RFS Conference on FinTech
Call for Completed Papers for the Review of Financial Studies Conference on Financial Technology (FinTech) at Cornell Tech, New York, NY March 16-17, 2018
The Review of Financial Studies is organizing a FinTech conference on March 16-17, 2018 at the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. The conference will feature the completed papers from the RFS FinTech Call for Proposals and the proposals workshop at Columbia University in May 2017. See the January 2017 call here, which includes a description of the themes and topics. There will be space at the 2018 conference for completed papers on the final program that were not among the original proposals. The sponsoring editors and Scientific Review committee will decide which of the submissions will qualify for the program.
The deadline for submission is December 7, 2017 and decisions will be made by mid-January, 2018. There is no submission fee. Submissions should be sent to the RFS Conference on FinTech email address using the subject line “RFS Conference on FinTech Submission.” We will send you an email to confirm receipt of your submission; if you do not receive confirmation with 48 hours, we have not received your submission.
The RFS Conference on FinTech is grateful for the financial support of the Society for Financial Studies, the Johnson Graduate School of Management at the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, and the XIN Real Estate FinTech Research Center at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University.
Submission Period for Cavalcade North America 2018 is Now Open!
The SFS Cavalcade North America 2018 submission period is now open. To submit, please visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2018. The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2017.
Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features dual submission with the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Details are available at SFS Cavalcade North America 2018.
Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.
