Editorial Team Changes

RAPS welcomes the following Associate Editors: Ralph Koijen, Clemens Sialm, Dimitri Vayanos, and Pietro Veronesi.

We thank our retiring Associate Editors: Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Hanno Lustig, Christopher J. Malloy, and Allan Timmermann.

All changes are effective July 1, 2017.

Announcement for Referees and Authors re: Check Payments

Beginning January 24, we are putting our check payments temporarily on hold for all three journals. This is due to both staff leave and updates being made to our bank accounts. During this time, referee payments and author refunds will not be sent out. We will resume sending payments June 1, 2017. If you complete a referee report or receive a refund credit during this time, it will be noted and the check can be processed when our payments recommence.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Submission Period for Cavalcade North America 2017 is Now Open!

The SFS Cavalcade North America 2017 submission period is now open. To submit, please visit Cavalcade North America 2017. The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2016.

Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features dual submission with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Details are available at Cavalcade North America 2017.

Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

Submission Period Approaching for SFS Cavalcade North America 2017

The SFS Cavalcade North America 2017 submission period will begin November 9 and end December 7. For more, visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2017.

Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features dual submission with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies.

Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

Editor’s Choice: June

The Editor’s Choice article for June 2016 (issue 6/1) is “Macro Disagreement and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns by Frank Weikai Li. You can read the article free online here.

New RAPS Issue: June 2016

The new issue of RAPS 6(1) June 2016 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!

New Paper Examines Speeds for Top Finance Journals

A new working paper titled “Do Acceptance and Publication Times Differ Across Finance Journals?” by Craig Holden examines the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to final-round acceptance for the top-20 finance journals and top-tier business journals. He finds that the two fastest finance journals are the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, with median acceptance times of 7.3 months and 7.8 months, respectively. For the top-three finance journals, he finds that the median acceptance time at the Journal of Financial Economics is 9.9 months, at the Review of Financial Studies is 15.3 months, and at the Journal of Finance is 19.8 months. See his paper on SSRN.