Dual Submissions with RCFS Winter Conference
The dual submission decisions for the RCFS Winter Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
RCFS News
RCFS Keynote Speaker
RCFS is pleased to announce that Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) will be the RCFS Keynote Speaker at Cavalcade North America 2022. The keynote will take place on Monday, May 23.
Paper Spotlight: Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges
Recent estimates suggest that the cost of developing a single new drug in the biopharmaceutical sector is $2.6 billion, confirming the very large amounts of money that medical companies invest to develop a new treatment. Biomedical companies also face the risk of very low rates of success, not only due to the inherent scientific risk of developing… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges
Paper Spotlight: Optimal Capital Structure with Imperfect Competition
Why do firms in the same industry often have different leverage levels? In the forthcoming paper “Optimal Capital Structure with Imperfect Competition,” Egor Matveyev and Alexei Zhdanov show that strategic interaction alone can generate this difference. The authors first exhibit a theoretical model in which two ex ante identical firms are deciding when to enter an industry and also how much debt to issue. The product price depends both on… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Optimal Capital Structure with Imperfect Competition
Forthcoming Papers
“Determinants of LGBTQ Corporate Policies” by Tanja Artiga Gonzalez, Paul Vincent Calluzzo, G. Nathan Dong, and Georg Granic “What’s good for women is good for science: Evidence from the American Finance Association” by Renee Adams and Michelle Lowry
Paper Spotlight: Corporate Transactions in Hard-to-Value Stocks
Existing evidence shows a significant cross-sectional heterogeneity in firms’ informational environment. Smaller firms may not have any research analysts following them, thus operating in a more informationally opaque environment and, as a result, asymmetric information may allow firm insiders to profit from their superior information. But insiders may also trade not so much for profit-related reasons but to… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Corporate Transactions in Hard-to-Value Stocks
Forthcoming Paper
“Agency Costs and Strategic Speculation in the U.S. Stock Market” by Paolo Pasquariello
RCFS Winter Conference Program
The program for the RCFS Winter Conference is available on the conference website. The conference will take place February 18-20, 2022, at the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Florida.
New Issue: February 11(1)
The February issue of RCFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings” Jongsub Lee, Tao Li, Donghwa Shin
Paper Spotlight: Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks
Angel investors, who invest their personal wealth, are more common than venture-capital (VC) investors in seed-stage startups. Yet, we know little about how these angel investors – with a more limited network than VCs – develop their financial networks. In a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks,” Buvaneshwaran Venugopal and Vijay Yerramilli show that co-investment is widespread among angel investors: Analyzing hand-collected data from the… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks