The Review of Financial Studies

Executive Editor: Matthew Spiegel ♦ Editors: Geert Bekaert, Andrew Karolyi, Alexander Ljungqvist, Laura Starks, Pietro Veronesi, Michael Weisbach

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News

August 13, 2010:

The RFS is pleased to welcome our newest assistant editor Erin Schwartz! We are confident she will do an excellent job and wish her every success as she starts her new position.

August 12, 2010:

The RFS is pleased to welcome our newest editor Andrew Karolyi! We are confident he will do an excellent job and wish him every success as he starts his term.

August 4, 2010:

Next year the SFS will launch its first ever week long Finance Cavalcade. Our goal is to provide a setting that produces the kind of participation you see at smaller conferences but yet accommodates the variety of papers you find at the larger ones. As currently envisioned the conference will run from Monday May 23 to Friday May 27. The early days will be devoted to corporate finance papers and the latter ones to those in asset pricing. This conference is a joint project of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. We are now soliciting bids from schools that are interested in acting as hosts. At a minimum, bids must include classroom commitments for the entire week as well as projectors and other equipment necessary to facilitate presentations. If you are interested in either submitting a proposal or obtaining additional information contact either Matthew Spiegel, Paolo Fulghieri, or Wayne Ferson.

July 29, 2010:

The RFS is looking to add freelance technical paper copy editors. If you know somebody in the area please contact Matthew Spiegel.

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Turnaround:
Mean: 55.49 days
Median: 50 days
Total Submissions
(since 09/03/09): 1184
Acceptance Rate: 7.52%

Conference Announcements
6th NY Fed/NYU Stern Conference On Financial Intermediation
November 4-5, 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York, NY
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 30, 2010

Information, Liquidity and Trust in Incomplete Financial Markets
October 11-13, 2010
Freiburg University
Freiburg Germany
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 25, 2010

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Forthcoming in the RFS

Discrete-Time Affine Term Structure Models with Generalized Market Prices of Risk
by Anh Le, Kenneth J. Singleton, and Qiang Dai

This article develops a rich class of discrete-time, nonlinear dynamic term structure models (DTSMs). Under the risk-neutral measure, the distribution of the state vector Xt resides within a family of discrete-time affine processes that nests the exact discrete-time counterparts of the entire class of continuous-time models in Duffie and Kan (1996) and Dai and Singleton (2000). Under the historical distribution, our approach accommodates nonlinear (nonaffine) processes while leading to closed-form expressions for the conditional likelihood functions for zero-coupon bond yields. As motivation for our framework, we show that it encompasses many of the equilibrium models with habit-based preferences or recursive preferences and long-run risks. We illustrate our methods by constructing maximum likelihood estimates of a nonlinear discrete-time DTSM with habit-based preferences in which bond prices are known in closed form. We conclude that habit-based models, as typically parameterized in the literature, do not match key features of the conditional distribution of bond yields. (JEL G12, C5, E13, E21)

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