RCFS News

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.

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

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

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

“Does Contract Enforcement Mitigate Hold Up?” by J. Anthony Cookson

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.

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

The Editor’s Choice paper for March 2018 (issue 7/1) is “Identification is not Causality, and Vice Versa” by R. Kahn and Toni M. Whited. You can read the article free online here.

Editor Gregor Matvos’s paper, “The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct,” is featured on Forbes.com in a post by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. The paper is co-authored with Mark Egan and former RCFS Editor Amit Seru. You can view the post online here.

“An Unexpected Test of the Bonding Hypothesis” by Louis Gagnon and G. Andrew Karolyi