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Forthcoming Paper

“How should a Firm Go Public? A Dynamic Model of the Choice Between Fixed-Price Offerings and Auctions in IPOs and Privatizations” by Thomas J. Chemmanur and Mark H. Liu

Rising Scholar Award

RCFS is pleased to announce the addition of the Rising Scholar Award. Authors are eligible for the prize if no author on the submitted paper received either their current academic appointment or most recent Ph.D. more than 6 years prior to when the paper was submitted to RCFS. For more information, visit Rising Scholar.

15th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association will feature a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. The deadline for paper submissions is August 31, 2018. The conference will take place December 8 and 9, 2018, at the Bellagio Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

Citation Impact Factor for RCFS

Our publisher, Oxford University Press, has computed the 2017 Citation Impact Factor for RCFS. If RCFS were indexed by ISI, it would have an Impact Factor of 1.625.

Forthcoming Paper

“Shareholder Bargaining Power, Debt Overhang, and Investment” by Emmanuel Alanis, Sudheer Chava, and Praveen Kumar

Forthcoming Paper

“Investment-Banking Relationships: 1933-2007” by Alan Morrison, Carola Schenone, Aaron Thegeya, and William Wilhelm

Executive Editor Paolo Fulghieri

Because he will soon be completing his second term as Executive Editor of The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, we reluctantly say good-bye to Paolo Fulghieri. Paolo has contributed much to the Society of Financial Studies. He served The Review of Financial Studies as Associate Editor (2001-2003) and Editor (2006-2010), after which he was recruited to be the founding Executive Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, with the… Read More »Executive Editor Paolo Fulghieri

Winners of the RCFS Awards

The winners of the RCFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America on May 23. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award “Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth” Wei Jiang Prize: $20,000 Referee of the Year Ilona Babenko Prize: $1000 Congratulations to all our award winners! For past award history, please visit our Awards page.

Forthcoming Paper

“Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cunat, Dragana Cvijanovic, and Kathy Yuan