The Society of Financial Studies has a part-time opening for a data collection assistant. Typical hours would be approximately 10 hours per week, but you would have the flexibility to work where you wish and when you wish. Internet access is required. Some familiarity with finance journals and papers is preferred. This position pays $20 per hour. To be considered, please send a CV/resume to manager@sfs.org by October 31, 2018.
Forthcoming Papers
“Optimal Security Design under Asymmetric Information and Profit Manipulation” by Giulio Trigilia, Kostas Koufopoulos, and Roman Kozhan
“Inventory and Corporate Risk Management” by Marco Bianco and Andrea Gamba
Forthcoming Paper
“Information: Hard and Soft” by Jose Maria Liberti and Mitchell Petersen
2019 RCFS/RAPS Conference at Baha Mar
Following the success of the first RCFS conference last year, the Society for Financial Studies is hosting a joint RCFS/RAPS conference at Nassau in the Bahamas from February 15 to 17, 2019. The sponsoring editors are: (RCFS) Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Gregor Matvos, Uday Rajan, and (RAPS) Jeffrey Pontiff, Hui Chen, Thierry Foucault, and Nikolai Roussanov. The submission period is September 7 – November 1, 2018. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
New RCFS Issue: September 2018
The new issue of RCFS, 7(2) September 2018, has published online. If you have a subscription, you can read the issue online. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still read the Editor’s Choice paper for free online!
Editor’s Choice: September
The Editor’s Choice paper for September 2018 (issue 7/2) is “Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan. You can read the article free online here.
Virtual Issue: Housing Economics
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on housing economics features an RCFS paper:
“Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan.
The virtual issue is free to read online until the end of September on Oxford’s web site.
Introducing Isil Erel
We welcome Isil Erel as an Editor of RCFS. Isil is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Please join us in welcoming Isil to the team.
Editor Efraim Benmelech
We extend our sincere thanks to Efraim Benmelech, who has retired as an Editor of RCFS. Effi has been with RCFS since the beginning and was an Editor for our inaugural issue. We thank him for his service to the journal.
Forthcoming Paper
“How should a Firm Go Public? A Dynamic Model of the Choice Between Fixed-Price Offerings and Auctions in IPOs and Privatizations” by Thomas J. Chemmanur and Mark H. Liu
