RCFS News

RCFS welcomes the following Associate Editors:Tania Babina (University of Maryland)Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)Sergey Chernenko (Purdue University)Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas)William Mullins (UCSD) Associate Editors renewing for a second term are:Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics)Rawley Heimer (Arizona State University)Sabrina Howell (New York University)Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago)Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis)Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore) Changes are effective July 1, 2025.

The dual submission decisions for the 4th Holden Conference have been sent.

The winners of the annual RCFS Awards were announced at SFS Cavalcade North America 2025. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award“Economic Significance in Corporate Finance”Todd MittonPrize: $10,000 Referee of the YearPeter IlievPrize: $1000 Rising Scholar Award“Employer Dominance and Worker Earnings in Finance”Wenting MaPrize: $5000 Best Registered Report“Corporate Hiring under Uncertainty”Duc Duy Nguyen and Vathunyoo SilaPrize: $5000 Congratulations to all our award winners!

“The Politics of the Paycheck Protection Program” by Deniz Igan, Thomas Lambert, Prachi Mishra, and Eden Quxian Zhang Monash University

“Managerial Ownership in a Private Firm Framework” by Chao Gao and Mitchell Johnston

“Inflexibility and Corporate Credit Spreads” by Zhe An, Abe De Jong, Ying Xia, and Zhaofeng Xu

“Net Income Aggregation, Investor Inattention, and Portfolio Holding Decisions: Evidence from the Insurance Industry” by Natee Amornsiripanitch, Brandon Goldstein, Zeqiong Huang, David Kwon, and Jinjie Lin

“Loan Guarantees in a Democracy” by Stylianos Papageorgiou and Nicholas Ziros