Economics and Finance

• Inside the Board Room
  Journal of Corporate Finance
  Submission deadline: February 15, 2013
• Conference on the Governance of Family Firms
  Journal of Corporate Finance
  Submission deadline: March 15, 2013
• International Conference on the Global Financial Crisis
  Journal of International Money and Finance
  Submission deadline: November 30, 2012
• Special Issue on research related to Housing Policy in the United States
  Journal of Housing Economics
  Editors: Ingrid Gould Ellen and Raphael Bostic
  Submission deadline: March 30, 2013
• Special Issue on Empirical Behavioral Finance
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  Editors: Martijn J. van den Assem, Remco C.J. Zwinkels, Doron Kliger
  Submission deadline: February 28, 2013
• 2013 Special Issue: Frontiers of Asset Pricing
  Review of Financial Economics
  Editors: Tarun K. Mukherjee, Gerald Whitney
  Paper Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2013
• Special Issue in Honor of Herbert Mohring
  Economics of Transportation
  Guest Editors: Marvin Kraus
  Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
• Risk Theory Society Annual Seminar
  Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
  Submissions due: December 15, 2012
• Risk Theory Society Annual Seminar
  Journal of Economics and Business
  Submissions due: December 15, 2012
• Financial Econometrics Group, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance presents a two-day Symposium on Financial Econometrics and Market Microstructure
  Journal of Financial Markets
  Submission Deadline: October 22, 2012
• General Call for Papers
  Triggered by the recent financial crisis in the western world, the new editorial team of The North American Journal of Economics and Finance is calling for high quality submissions on a variety of financial economics topics, including, but not limited to: financial intermediation, behavioural finance and the relationship between law and finance
• Special Issue on Imbalances in Economic Development: International Perspectives
  Journal of Development Economics
  Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
• Financial Globalisation and Sustainable Finance: Implications for Policy and Practice
  Journal of Banking & Finance
  Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
• Special Issue on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
  International Review of Economics & Finance
  Submission Deadline: December 31, 2012

Ross Best Paper Award Winners

The Editors of Finance Research Letters congratulate the recipients of the 2011 Stephen A. Ross Best Paper Award ($1000) chosen from articles published in 2011. The Ross Award for 2011 goes to:

• Endogenous leverage and expected stock returns
  T.C. Johnson, T. Chebonenko, I. Cunha, F. DAlmeida, X. Spencer
  Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 132–145

The choice for the award was made by the journal's board. Warmest congratulations to the winners!

The Explorations Prize in Economic History

Elsevier is pleased to announce the co-winners of the Explorations in Economic History Prize:

• Serial defaults, serial profits: Returns to sovereign lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566–1600
  Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth
  Explorations in Economic History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 1-19
• Peasant communes and factor markets in late nineteenth-century Russia
  Steven Nafziger
  Explorations in Economic History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 381-402

The Paul Geroski Best Paper Award

Awarded to the best two papers published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization. We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2012 award (for papers published in 2011):

• Location and Competition in Retail Banking
  Katherine Ho, Joy Ishii
  Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, Pages 537–546
• Brand-specific tastes for quality
  Alessandro Bonatti
  Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, Pages 562–575
  

• International Corporate Finance Governance Conference
  Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 36, Issue 11, pages 2865-3122 (Nov-12)
  Edited by Rezaul Kabir
  
• Slavery, Colonialism and Institutions Around the World
  Journal Of Comparative Economics, Volume 40, Issue 4, pages 531-644 (Nov-12)
  Edited by Daniel Berkowitz, Marla Ripoll
  
• Australasian Finance Conference 2010: Liquidity crisis, financial integration and global financial stability
  Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 36, Issue 10, pages 2673-2864 (Oct-12)
  Edited by Fariborz Moshirian
  
• Special Section on: Price, Wage and Employment Adjustments in 2007-2008 and Some Inferences for the Current European Crisis.
  Labour Economics, Volume 19, Issue 5, pages 643-812 (Oct-12)
  Edited by Etienne Wasmer
  
• Thirtieth Anniversary of Generalized Method of Moments
  Journal of Econometrics, Volume 170, Issue 2, pages 251-550 (Oct-12)
  Edited by Marine Carrasco, Mehmet Caner, Yuichi Kitamura, Eric Renault
  
• Actors, Crisis and Financial Market Development
  Emerging Markets Review, Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 253-410 (Sep-12)
  Edited by Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
  
• Risk management and market volatility
  Review of Financial Economics, Volume 21, Issue 3, pages 91-158 (Sep-12)
  Edited by Bluford H. Putnam, D. Sykes Wilford
  
• Special issue on "Migration and Development"
  Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 42, Issue 5, pages 761-904 (Sep-12)
  Edited by Marc Gurgand, Sylvie Lambert, Hillel Rapoport, Yves Zenou
  
• Special Issue: CES 2010 & Special Issue: SBICCI
  China Economic Review, Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 499-742 (Sep-12)
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• Special Section: Contemporary corporate finance research on South America
  Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 683-1004 (Sep-12)
  Edited by Murillo Campello
  

• New Editors of International Journal of Industrial Organization
  Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  Pierre Dubois, University of Toulouse, France
• New Co-Editor of Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
  Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Japan
• New Co-Editor of Journal of Economic Behavior Organization
  Ragan Petrie, George Mason University, USA
• New Editor of Research in International Business and Finance
  Thomas Lagoarde Segot, Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, France
• New Editor-in-Chief for International Review of Financial Analysis
  Brian M. Lucey, Trinity College, Ireland
• New Co-Editor for Journal of International Money and Finance
  Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
• New Co-Editor for Journal of Financial Markets
  Gideon Saar, Cornell University, USA