The UBC Winter Finance Conference 2020 will feature a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. The RAPS sponsoring editor is Jeffrey Pontiff and the RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The deadline for paper submissions is November 18, 2019. The conference will take place February 28 to March 1 at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. For more details, see the Call for Papers.
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Jeffrey Pontiff in Bloomberg
Executive Editor Jeffrey Pontiff is quoted in Bloomberg in a piece titled “What U.S. Could Learn From India’s New Tax on Share Buybacks.”
Forthcoming Paper
“Quantitative Easing and Equity Prices: Evidence from the ETF Program of the Bank of Japan” by Andrea Barbon and Virginia Gianinazzi
Virtual Issue: Monetary Policy
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on monetary policy features two RAPS papers by Eugene F. Fama: “Does the Fed Control Interest Rates?” and “Interest Rates and Inflation Revisited.”
The virtual issue is free to read until the end of September.
Winners of the RAPS Awards
The winners of the RAPS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America on May 21. We are pleased to share the winners:
Best Paper Award
“Beta Bubbles”
Petri Jylhä, Matti Suominen, and Tuomas Tomunen
Prize: $20,000
Referee of the Year
Brian Weller
Prize: $1000
Congratulations to all our award winners!
Editorial Team Updates
RAPS is pleased to announce that Thierry Foucault has been renewed for another 3-year term as Editor.
The following Associate Editors have been renewed for 3-year terms: Roger Edelen, Sydney Ludvigson, Jun Pan, and Andrew Patton.
We thank our Editors and Associate Editors for their continued service.
New RAPS Issue: June 2019
The new issue of RAPS 9(1) June 2019 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!
Forthcoming Paper
“First to ‘Read’ the News: News Analytics and Algorithmic Trading” by Bastian von Beschwitz, Donald B. Keim, and Massimo Massa
RAPS Keynote Speaker
RAPS is pleased to announce that Campbell Harvey (Duke University) will be the RAPS Keynote Speaker at Cavalcade North America 2020. Professor Harvey’s speech will take place Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 3:45pm.
Forthcoming Paper
“Learning Fast or Slow” by Brad Barber, Yi-Tsung Lee, Yu-Jane Liu, Terrance Odean, and Ke Zhang
