The Review of Financial Studies

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

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March 11, 2010:

It appears that our database code has ceased running properly. Until the problem is fixed the acceptance rate you see on the home page will be substantially off. It is actually about 8.8% not the 3+% shown now.

March 8, 2010:

Should the RFS adopt a policy requiring authors to make their data available to the profession as a condition of publication? There are many pros and cons to this. Prior to adopting a policy, if any, we would welcome an opportunity to obtain your views in the RFS Forum.

December 28, 2009:

All of the decision letters for the Utah Winter Finance Conference dual submission papers have now gone out. If you are expecting to receive one and have not then please contact Matthew Spiegel at your earliest convenience.

December 8, 2009:

The Utah Winter Finance Conference reviews have been forwarded to the RFS. We hope to have decisions out prior to the New Year. Unfortunately, at this point that cannot be guaranteed. The editor in charge of the reviews, Matthew Spiegel, will soon be on the road for two weeks. But he has promised to work on processing the 100+ submissions from the conference as quickly as possible.

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Turnaround:
Mean: 55.26 days
Median: 49 days
Total Submissions
(since 03/13/09): 1130
Acceptance Rate: 7.79%

Conference Announcements
Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference
June 14-15, 2010
The Inn at Harvard
Boston, MA
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15

Texas Finance Festival
April 30 - May 1, 2010
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Austin, TX
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1, 2010

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Forthcoming in the RFS

Return Reversals, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Expected Returns
by Wei Huang, Qianqiu Liu, S. Ghon Rhee, and Liang Zhang

The empirical evidence on the cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic risk and expected stock returns is mixed. We demonstrate that the omission of the previous month's stock returns can lead to a negatively biased estimate of the relation. The magnitude of the omitted variable bias depends on the approach to estimating the conditional idiosyncratic volatility. Although a negative relation exists when the estimate is based on daily returns, it disappears after return reversals are controlled for. Return reversals can explain both the negative relation between value-weighted portfolio returns and idiosyncratic volatility and the insignificant relation between equal-weighted portfolio returns and idiosyncratic volatility. In contrast, there is a significantly positive relation between the conditional idiosyncratic volatility estimated from monthly data and expected returns. This relation remains robust after controlling for return reversals.

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