The Review of Financial Studies

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.

The submission deadline for the Fourth Symposium for Emerging Financial Markets: China and Beyond is January 31, 2015. For more information, visit the Call for Papers.

The Editor’s Choice article for February 2015 (issue 28/2) is “Strategic Investment and Industry Risk Dynamics” by M. Cecilia Bustamante. You can read the article free online here.

The Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Around the World will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for paper submission is March 1, 2015. The conference will take place June 27-28, 2015. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

Happy New Year from all of us at the Society for Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and The Review of Financial Studies.