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The Editor’s Choice article for April 2015 (issue 28/4) is “Human Capital as an Asset Class Implications from a General Equilibrium Model” by Miguel Palacios. You can read the article free online here.

We are pleased to announce that Cornerstone Research has pledged to continue their support for the Referee of the Year and Distinguished Referee Awards for 2015.  The Review of Financial Studies is grateful to Cornerstone Research, who have been supporting these awards since 2010. The awards will be presented at Cavalcade 2015.

To see past award winners, visit RFS Awards.

The Review of Financial Studies is pleased to announce the continued support of Research Affiliates for the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award and the Rising Researcher Prize. We are grateful to Research Affiliates for their continued support. The awards will be presented at Cavalcade 2015.

To see past award winners, visit RFS Awards.

Register for the Cavalcade by March 31 to pay the early registration fee of $100 for SFS members or $140 for nonmembers. Registration fees increase on April 1! Register online at Cavalcade 2015.

The program for Cavalcade 2015 is now available. Check it out on the Cavalcade 2015 web site!

The March 2015 issue of RFS (28/3) features two Editor’s Choice papers:

“Editorial: Cosmetic Surgery in the Academic Review Process” by David Hirshleifer

and

“Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach” by Kewei Hou, Chen Xue, and Lu Zhang. “Digesting Anomalies” is also featured in a corresponding post on the OUP Blog.

You can read both papers for free online by clicking on their titles in this post, or by visiting RFS Editor’s Choice.

You can now register online for the 2015 SFS Finance Cavalcade, which will take place May 17-20, 2015, at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Early registration will be $100 for members and $140 for nonmembers. Beginning April 1, the registration rate will increase to $125 for members and $165 for nonmembers. The registration fee will be waived for doctoral students and Georgia Tech faculty. To register, visit the Cavalcade 2015 web site.

Congratulations to RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi on the publication of his book, “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma.” The book will be available in May. For more, visit the publisher’s web site here.

A new installment of Andrew Karolyi’s Executive Editor blog is now available. This month’s feature, “Wherefore Art Thou (Corporate) Peer?” examines “Strategic Investment and Industry Risk Dynamics” by M. Cecilia Bustamante. Visit the RFS Executive Editor Blog to read the post.

We’ve made an addition to the RFS web site by adding a Best Practices page, which includes helpful guides for professional best practices. We see this guide as a living document that will be updated with new editorials, articles, and presentations whenever appropriate. For more, visit Best Practices.