Review of Asset Pricing Studies

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association will feature a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. The deadline for paper submissions is August 31, 2021. The conference will take place December 11-12, at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas. Submit online here.

We are pleased to share that Hui Chen has been renewed for a second term as an editor.

We are grateful to Nikolai Roussanov and Thierry Foucault, who have completed their terms as editors. Thierry has been with RAPs since 2016 and previously served as an associate editor. Nick has been with RAPS since 2018. We thank them for their service.

We welcome Zhiguo He and Marcin Kacperczyk to the team as editors.

We are also grateful to our retiring associate editors:

Kerry Back
Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Joel Hasbrouck
Hanno Lustig
Christopher Malloy
Albert Menkveld
Stavros Panageas
Allan Timmermann

and welcome our incoming associate editors:

Frederico Belo (INSEAD)
Terrence Hendershott (University of California, Berkeley)
Anna Pavlova (London Business School)
Sophie Shive (University of Notre Dame).

The video of Eugene Fama’s keynote presentation at Cavalcade North America 2021 can now be viewed on the Cavalcade web site. This keynote was a special Q&A session hosted by RAPS Executive Editor Jeffrey Pontiff.

“Valuation Risk in Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure” by Hsiu-lang Chen

The winners of the annual RAPS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 25 as part of the SFS Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners:

Best Paper Award
“Preventing Controversial Catastrophes”
Steven D. Baker, Burton Hollifield, and Emilio Osambela
Prize: $10,000

Referee of the Year
Juhani Linnainmaa
Prize: $1000

Rising Scholar Award
“Publication Bias and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns”
Andrew Y. Chen and Tom Zimmermann
Prize: $5000

Congratulations to all our award winners!