RCFS News

The deadline to  submit papers to the 2023 RCFS Winter Conference is only a week away! The deadline is November 10, 2022. The submission deadline for proposals is November 30.  

“Can Central Banks Boost Corporate Investment? Evidence from ECB Liquidity Injections” by Stine Louise von Rüden, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Dragon Yongjun Tang, and Sarah Qian Wang

“Bank Lobbying as a Financial Safety Net:Evidence from the Post-crisis U.S. Banking Sector” by Kentaro Asai

The November issue of RCFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies?” Kingsley Fong, Harrison Hong, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Jeffrey D. Kubik

“Do Nonfinancial Firms Use Financial Assets to Take Risk?” by Ran Duchin and Zhiyao Nicholas Chen

A recent trend in the reporting of empirical results in the finance literature has been to focus on the economic significance of the results, rather than simply stating the statistical significance of the documented effects. This is a welcome development that will help convey the importance of the empirical findings in our field. But what is the best way to measure economic significance? Should the effects be reported as a… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Economic Significance in Corporate Finance

2023 RCFS Winter Conference February 18-19, 2023 Royal Sonesta San Juan, Puerto Rico Call for Papers Submission Deadline: November 10, 2022 Call for Proposals on “Corporate Market Power: Drivers and Financial Consequences” Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022

“Firm Finances and the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Nursing Homes” by Taylor A. Begley and Daniel Weagley