Review of Asset Pricing Studies

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.

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.”

“Quantitative Easing and Equity Prices: Evidence from the ETF Program of the Bank of Japan” by Andrea Barbon and Virginia Gianinazzi 

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.

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.

“First to ‘Read’ the News:  News Analytics and Algorithmic Trading” by Bastian von Beschwitz, Donald B. Keim, and Massimo Massa

RAPS is pleased to announce that Campbell Harvey (Duke University) will be the RAPS Keynote Speaker at Cavalcade North America 2020.