Call for Completed Papers for RFS Conference on Climate Finance

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The Review of Financial Studies, Columbia University Department of Economics, and the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School are organizing a Climate Finance conference on October 5 & 6, 2018 at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London. The conference funded by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) will feature the completed papers from the RFS Climate Finance Call for Proposals and the proposals workshop at Columbia University in November 2017. See the January 2017 call here which includes a description of the themes and topics. There will be space at the October 2018 conference for completed papers on the final program that were not among the original proposals. The sponsoring editors and the Scientific Review committee will decide which of the submissions will qualify for the program.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2018 and decisions will be made by July 31, 2018. There is no submission fee. Submissions should be sent to the RFS Conference on Climate Finance email address using the subject line “RFS Conference on Climate Finance Submission.” We will send you an email to confirm receipt of your submission; if you do not receive confirmation with 72 hours, we have not received your submission.

The RFS Climate Finance conference is also grateful for the support of the Society for Financial Studies, The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

 

2019 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management”

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The 2019 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management” will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Francesca Cornelli. The deadline for paper submissions is September 16, 2018. The conference will take place March 28‐30, 2019, at Bocconi University in Milan. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

Conference on New Methods for the Cross Section of Returns

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Together with the Fama-Miller Center at Chicago Booth and EDHEC, RFS will co-host a conference on “New Methods for the Cross Section of Returns.” The conference will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editors are Stijn van Nieuwerburgh and Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for papers is June 15, 2018. The conference will take place September 27-28, 2018, at the Gleacher Center of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. The Call for Papers may be viewed here. The keynote speaker, John Cochrane, has blogged about the conference here.

2018 Texas Finance Festival

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The 2018 Texas Finance Festival took place April 19-21, 2018, at the Horseshoe Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Pictured are John Griffin of The University of Texas at Austin, RFS Editor Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Cesare Fracassi of The University of Texas at Austin.

RFS Article Featured in Forbes

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“Does a CEO’s Cultural Heritage Affect Performance under Competitive Pressure?” by Duc Duy Nguyen, Jens Hagendorff, and Arman Eshraghi, which published in RFS issue 31(1), was featured in Forbes in a piece titled, “New Study Links A CEO’s Cultural Heritage With Corporate Performance.” Read the article online here.

2018 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking Research: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management”

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The 2018 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking Research: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management” took place March 15-17 at Sapienza University in Rome. Pictured are Stefano Caselli of Bocconi University, Marina Brogi of Sapienza University, and RFS Editor Francesca Cornelli of London Business School.

2018 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking Research: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management”

RFS FinTech Initiative 2018

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The RFS FinTech Initiative took place March 16-17, 2018, at Cornell Tech – Tata Innovation Center. Pictured are RFS Editors Wei Jiang and Itay Goldstein, Professor Pam Moulton representing Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Xiaoyan Zhang representing XIN FinTech Center at Tsinghua’s PBC School of Finance, and RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi. For more, please visit RFS FinTech Initiative.