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Final Day to Submit Your Registered Report!

The deadline to submit Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” to 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is today, December 5, 2021! The system will close at 11:59pm ET. Please ensure you begin your submission with time to finish it before the deadline.  

Paper Spotlight: Private Equity and the Resolution of Financial Distress

              Leveraged buyouts by private equity funds have been a constant, and growing, phenomenon in corporate finance over the last two decades and their importance is likely to increase in the post-COVID world. Empirical literature on this subject has explored various angles, but one unanswered question is whether the high leverage used in private equity (PE) buyout transactions contributes to the disproportionately high default… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Private Equity and the Resolution of Financial Distress

Deadline Approaching: RCFS Winter Conference

The deadline to submit Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” to the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is only a week away! The deadline is December 5, 2021.

RCFS Winter Conference Update

The paper submissions for the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference are now closed, but there is still time to submit a registered report! The deadline for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” is December 5, 2021.

Final Day to Submit Your Paper!

The deadline to submit a paper to the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is today, November 19! For details, visit Call for Papers. The deadline for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” is December 5, 2021.

Forthcoming Papers

“Optimal Capital Structure with Imperfect Competition” by Egor Matveyev and Alexey Zhdanov “Cultural Diversities, Lending Relationships and the Cost of Credit: Evidence from Migration” by Giorgio Albareto, Maddalena Galardo, Paolo Emilio Mistrulli, and Bianca Sorvillo

Paper Spotlight: The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings

                Initial coin offerings are fast becoming a new type of crowdfunding for blockchain-related startups. In this type of offerings, an entrepreneur raises capital through the creation and selling of virtual currencies or “tokens,” which themselves give rights to their holders (for example, access to a platform). As is to be expected, there are severe problems of information asymmetry associated with these instruments… Read More »Paper Spotlight: The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings

Deadline Approaching: RCFS Winter Conference

The deadline to submit a paper to the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is only a week away! For details, visit Call for Papers. Papers must be submitted by November 19, 2021. The deadline for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” is December 5, 2021.