RCFS has a submission option for papers that were previously reviewed by other journals. The goal of such review process is to help the editors arrive at a quick and informed decision on a paper based on feedback received by the authors from previous submissions. A paper is eligible for this optional review process if it was previously submitted to a few select journals; please see Prior Review Policy for… Read More »Prior Review Process
There is a growing literature on the stock price of a firm influencing the actions of the firm’s managers. To what extent do managers at other firms rely on the information in the stock price of a given firm? The forthcoming paper “Stock Market Information and Innovative Investment in the Supply Chain,” by Lantian Liang, Ryan Williams, and Steven Chong Xiao, addresses this… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Stock Market Information and Innovative Investment in the Supply Chain
RCFS’s March issue, 10(1), has published online. The Editor’s Choice paper is “Institutional Investors and Hedge Fund Activism” by Simi Kedia, Laura T. Starks, and Xianjue Wang. This issue also features two papers related to the COVID-19 pandemic: “Efficient Programs to Support Businesses During and After Lockdowns ” by Thomas Philippon and “Crisis Poison Pills” by Ofer Eldar and Michael D. Wittry.
The stock market stress caused by the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak generated an ideal situation for cash-rich activists to buy strategic equity positions in target firms. Distinguishing low stock valuations due to bad management decisions, potentially necessitating an activist campaign, from the systematic blow due to the pandemic’s economic impact, may have been too difficult under the circumstances we observed in the early months. Some of these activist campaigns… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Crisis Poison Pills
“Skilled Labor Risk and Corporate Policies” by Yue Qiu and Tracy Yue Wang
The scale and scope of various government interventions around the globe in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak have been nothing short of staggering. Programs have come in different forms: guaranteed loans, equity injections, bank loans to SMEs that can be transformed into government-financed grants, etc. The actions taken in the initial stages of the outbreak, necessary to fight the economic fallout, are bound to generate major spillovers going forward.… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Efficient Programs to Support Businesses During and After Lockdowns
The Editor’s Choice paper for issue 10(1) is “Institutional Investors and Hedge Fund Activism” by Simi Kedia, Laura T. Starks, and Xianjue Wang. You can read the paper free online.
The dual submission decisions for the 3rd Future of Financial Information Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
Investors increasingly rely on proxy advisors such as ISS in deciding how to vote in corporate elections. In the paper “Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market,” Shichao Ma and Yan Xiong construct a theoretical model to examine the biases that can arise when the proxy advisor is a profit-maximizer. An intuitive finding is that a conflicted proxy advisor provides biased recommendations. More interestingly, if shareholders have either distorted preferences… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market
RCFS is pleased to announce that Amir Sufi (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business) will be the RCFS Keynote Speaker at Cavalcade North America 2021. The keynote will take Tuesday, May 25, 2021, from 3:45-4:30pm.
