The UBC Winter Finance Conference 2018 will feature a dual submission option with RCFS and RAPS. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Paolo Fughieri and the RAPS sponsoring editor is Wayne Ferson. The deadline for paper submissions is November 19, 2017. The conference will take place March 2-4, 2018, at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
“Multifaceted Transactions and Organizational Ownership” by Michel Antoine Habib
“Robust Models of CEO Turnover: New Evidence on Relative Performance Evaluation” by C. Edward Fee, Charles J. Hadlock, Jing Huang, and Joshua Pierce
See more photos from SFS Cavalcade North America 2017.
“Why Do Firms Sit on Cash? An Asymmetric Information Approach” by Milton Harris and Artur Raviv
“Lending to Innovative Firms” by Sudheer Chava, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao
“Information Revelation in Merger Waves” by Pablo Moran “Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth” by Wei Jiang
The Editor’s Choice article for March 2017 (issue 6/1) is “Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang” by Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso. You can read the article free online here.
The winners of the RCFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America. We are pleased to now share the winners: Best Paper Award “Spillovers in Local Banking Markets” by Mark J. Garmaise and Gabriel Natividad Prize: $10,000 Referee of the Year Daniel Ferreira Prize: $1000 Congratulations to all our award winners! For past award history, please visit our Awards page.
RCFS welcomes Camelia Kuhnen as an Associate Editor. We are also pleased to announce that Daniel Paravisini, Steven Kaplan, and Bilge Yilmaz are continuing as Associate Editors. We thank retiring Associate Editor Viral Acharya. All changes are effective July 1, 2017, except Viral Acharya, whose term ended in 2016.
