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1. Economist
   dab1
   

   Laura Starks is the president of SFS and super honest person!!! I am sure if she knows about it she will do something
   but it does take time!

   What a f'ing joke.
   It seems that something or nothing might happen at TAR. That is its own scandal and I hope something does happen. But the fact that there's not even the slightest possibility, no-one raising a peep, that anything will or could possibly happen at RFS or CMU Tepper, is an indictment of finance academia. It's now official that connections and nepotism matter more than proven academic fraud. No one will stand up to a single influential guy and his lousy kid.
   What a f'ing joke.
   

   Any update please?

   What makes you say Laura Starks is super honest? She appointed AK as Editor and renewed his appointment after the first 3 years (although with too many scandals AK had to step down in year 4). Given the inaction, it seems like Laura Starks is protecting AK (by protecting SK).

   Any other evidence that she has protected AK in other contexts?

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2. Economist
   51fb
   

   LS strikes one as one of those “connected” researchers. One too many long party nights at conferences building contacts. One too many one-shot JFE papers with young and willing data runners desperate for their first break.
   Not the kind to ruffle feathers.

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3. Economist
   a706
   

   LS strikes one as one of those “connected” researchers. One too many long party nights at conferences building contacts. One too many one-shot JFE papers with young and willing data runners desperate for their first break.
   Not the kind to ruffle feathers.

   This is nonsense. Even if you dropped from her CV every paper of hers that has a junior faculty co-author, her record and impact is still better than 99% of the profession.

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4. Economist
   40cb
   

   What contribution has LS made? Some of her most-cited papers are low-rent crap.

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5. Economist
   927d
   

   LS's CV is not relevant to the fact that RFS has taken no action against the SKAB RFS paper, despite having the same problems as the retracted SKAB TAR paper.

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6. Economist
   62c0
   

   LS strikes one as one of those “connected” researchers. One too many long party nights at conferences building contacts. One too many one-shot JFE papers with young and willing data runners desperate for their first break.
   Not the kind to ruffle feathers.

   You hate women

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7. Economist
   f656
   

   Laura Starks is the president of SFS and super honest person!!! I am sure if she knows about it she will do something
   but it does take time!

   What a f'ing joke.
   It seems that something or nothing might happen at TAR. That is its own scandal and I hope something does happen. But the fact that there's not even the slightest possibility, no-one raising a peep, that anything will or could possibly happen at RFS or CMU Tepper, is an indictment of finance academia. It's now official that connections and nepotism matter more than proven academic fraud. No one will stand up to a single influential guy and his lousy kid.
   What a f'ing joke.
   

   Any update please?

   What makes you say Laura Starks is super honest? She appointed AK as Editor and renewed his appointment after the first 3 years (although with too many scandals AK had to step down in year 4). Given the inaction, it seems like Laura Starks is protecting AK (by protecting SK).
   Any other evidence that she has protected AK in other contexts?

   I remember from an earlier post https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/hrm-strategy-for-publishing-in-rfs

   JAR editors rejected a paper in 2007 that came out in JFE in 2011. The JAR editors created an extremely similar paper that overtly misstates the content of the JFE paper they rejected. That JAR editor paper was published by AK in RFS in 2016, and got editors choice award, while AK’s son SK had 2 papers under R&R with JAR editors (coincidence?!)
   Laura Starks investigated and did nothing, and even said it is okay for RFS authors to explicitly misrepresent what is in prior work (she said it is up to readers to figure it out). This comment paper gives details and a quote from Laura Starks - very surprising to see
   https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3317546
   (Would be good to know more details though.)

   So if we learn something from this case, it does not seem like doing something about SK is on Laura Starks’ list of things to do. Seems like Laura Starks would think it is up to the readers to figure out if SK misrepresented the data.

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8. Economist
   597f
   

   Tenure subito!

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9. Economist
   7f7b
   

   How is it possible

   Insider here. Confirmed.

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10. Economist
    6155
    

    How was Colorado? Any gossip?

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11. Economist
    8263
    

    How was Colorado? Any gossip?

    air was thin

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12. Economist
    e563
    

    This thread is becoming the epic takedown of false accounting and fake finance.
    In some perverse way, SKAB’s stupidity and arrogance could have a positive effect.

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13. Economist
    c9db
    

    .

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14. Economist
    9129
    

    Hello SKAB et SKABers
    Is it good faking weather?

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15. Economist
    e563
    

    WTF? It’s always good faking weather in Pittsburgh. Just never ever good weather.

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16. Economist
    c3f3
    

    No every whether is fake engineered by the...

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17. Economist
    5cf3
    

    Really? AB got tenure? Tepper should be ashamed (if they had any shame to loose)

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18. Economist
    df3f
    

    Tenure confirmed

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19. Economist
    4b85
    

    Is CMU a joke?

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20. Economist
    25f2
    

    I love that one of their papers is titled "Strategic Disclosure Misclassification"

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