Society for Financial Studies

Please consider the dual submission to the RCFS, available with this great conference.

Today is the final day for early registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025. Register before the discounted fee ends! Register at https://lnkd.in/e6SMt-3e

Call for Papers: RAPS Special Issue on AI/ML on Asset Pricing The Review of Asset Pricing Studies is launching a Special Issue on AI/ML on Asset Pricing, guest edited by Zhiguo He (Stanford GSB, Executive Editor of RAPS), Bryan Kelly (Yale SOM, Guest RAPS Editor), and Markus Pelger (Stanford MS&E, Guest RAPS Editor). We welcome papers on all aspects of AI/ML applications in asset pricing. Deadline to submit papers is November 18, 2025. Please see the Call for Papers for full details: https://lnkd.in/dyJh4u7D

The Call for Papers is now available for the 4th Holden Conference in Finance and Real Estate. The conference will be held September 25-27, 2025, in Bloomington, Indiana. The deadline for submission is April 15, 2025. The conference features optional dual submission to the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. https://lnkd.in/eb7VAEQh

The February issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Does Liquidity Management Induce Fragility in Treasury Prices? Evidence from Bond Mutual Funds" by Shiyang Huang, Wenxi Jiang, Xiaoxi Liu, and Xin Liu https://lnkd.in/gGRd-th8

Advisory Editor Position Available An RFS advisory editor position is available for the next academic year; the start date is flexible. The position is a particularly good fit for finance/economics post-docs or late-stage PhD students. The primary task is to provide editorial support in the review process and requires about 10 hours per week with a minimum commitment for one year (or preferably for two years). The position allows working closely with the RFS editors and for ample time to continue work on one’s own research. Salary is competitive. The position will remain open until filled. To apply, please submit a cover letter, graduate course work, any working papers, and three letters of recommendation to Jan Sokolowsky at jan.sokolowsky@sfs.org.

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Gerard Hoberg as an Editor, beginning July 1, 2025. Jerry is the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Chair of Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business and Director of The Institute for Outlier Research in Business. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for the Review from 2015-2018. Please join us in welcoming Jerry.

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Viral Acharya as an Editor, beginning September 1, 2025. Viral is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business, a Research Associate for NBER, a Research Affiliate for CEPR, and a Research Associate for ECGI. Viral was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2017 to 2019. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for the Review from 2005-2008.

Advisory Editor Position Available An RFS advisory editor position is available for the next academic year; the start date is flexible. The position is a particularly good fit for finance/economics post-docs or late-stage PhD students. The primary task is to provide editorial support in the review process and requires about 10 hours per week with a minimum commitment for one year (or preferably for two years). The position allows working closely with the RFS editors and for ample time to continue work on one’s own research. Salary is competitive. The position will remain open until filled. To apply, please submit a cover letter, graduate course work, any working papers, and three letters of recommendation to Jan Sokolowsky at jan.sokolowsky@sfs.org.

Data Editor Positions Available The Society is seeking to appoint two Data Editors (junior/senior) to conduct post-acceptance/pre-publication checks to verify/validate the code and data submitted to Harvard Dataverse by authors of articles accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.  The aim of the journals’ code and data sharing policy is to promote the transparency, reproducibility and replicability of research published in the journals. Applicants should be familiar with multiple programming languages, including at least Stata, R, MATLAB, and Python, and be able to assess whether the code and data submitted by the authors could be used by readers to replicate any of the empirical analysis, simulations, or numerical computations contained in their articles. The resulting code and data (or pseudo-data in the event of confidential data used under a sought exemption) following the Data Editorial process will be suitable for upload on the Harvard Dataverse for broader public availability. All material encountered over the course of the Data Editing process, as well as the results of the reproducibility and replication checks must be treated as strictly confidential within the editorial process until the point of public upload. Both posts will have an initial term of 3 years, which will be renewable. The anticipated commitment is 10–15 hours per week. Start date – as soon as possible. Remuneration commensurate with experience/to be advised. Requirements:  -Post-graduate study (junior), Ph.D. (senior).  -Experience with Stata, R, MATLAB and Python and other programming languages.    -Understanding of scholarly publishing process and Social Science Data Editor’s guide and checklist (https://lnkd.in/e4AcQxRp), and ability to ensure that the code and data packets provided by authors conform to this checklist, or, in the case of the junior editor, a willingness to learn and engage with the material uploaded by the authors.  -Excellent oral and written communication skills, good analytic abilities, strong customer service.  -Excellent time management and organizational skills.    -Ability to execute responsibilities with minimal supervision.   -Willingness to take part in editorial team meetings as required. To apply, please submit a resume to Jan Sokolowsky at jan.sokolowsky@sfs.org.