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Virtual Issue: Housing Economics

Oxford University Press’s new virtual issue on housing economics features an RCFS paper: “Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan. The virtual issue is free to read online until the end of September on  Oxford’s web site.

Introducing Isil Erel

We welcome Isil Erel as an Editor of RCFS. Isil is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Please join us in welcoming Isil to the team.

Editor Efraim Benmelech

We extend our sincere thanks to Efraim Benmelech, who has retired as an Editor of RCFS. Effi has been with RCFS since the beginning and was an Editor for our inaugural issue. We thank him for his service to the journal.

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