The UBC Winter Finance Conference 2020 will feature a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. The RAPS sponsoring editor is Jeffrey Pontiff and the RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The deadline for paper submissions is November 18, 2019. The conference will take place February 28 to March 1 at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. For more details, see the Call for Papers.
Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on monetary policy features two RCFS papers: “The Financial Crisis of 2007–2009: Why Did It Happen and What Did We Learn?” by Anjan V. Thakor “Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang” by Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso The virtual issue is free to read until the end of September.
“How Do Laws and Institutions affect Recovery Rates on Collateral?” by Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, Jose Maria Liberti, and Jason Sturgess
“Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises” by Boris Vallée
Our publisher, Oxford University Press, has computed the 2018 Citation Impact Factor for RCFS. If RCFS were indexed by ISI, it would have an Impact Factor of 1.938, which increased from last year’s figure of 1.625.
The winners of the RCFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America on May 21. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award “Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan Prize: $20,000 Referee of the Year Ramin P. Baghai Prize: $1000 Congratulations to all our award winners!
RCFS is pleased to announce that Gregor Matvos has been renewed for another 3-year term as Editor. We thank him for his continued service.
RCFS Editor Gregor Matvos is featured in the LA Times in a piece titled, “Chase says arbitration ‘provides better outcomes’ for consumers….” Also featured is former RCFS Editor Amit Seru, who is a co-author of the study alongside Mark Egan.
“Tough Love: The Effects of Debt Contract Design on Firm Performance” by Ioannis Spyridopoulos
The program for the CSEF-RCFS Conference on Finance, Labor, and Inequality is available online. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RCFS, will take place June 21-22 in Capri.
