RCFS News

The winners of the annual RCFS Awards were announced at SFS Cavalcade North America 2023. We are pleased to share the winners: Best Paper Award “Does Homeownership Reduce Wealth Disparities for Low-Income and Minority Households?” Ashleigh Eldemire, Kimberly F. Luchtenberg, and Matthew M. Wynter Prize: $10,000 Referee of the Year Elena Loutskina Prize: $1000 Best Registered Report “Energy Transitions and Household Finance: Evidence from U.S. Coal Mining” Ding Du and Stephen A.… Read More »Winners of the RCFS Awards

The 2nd Annual Holden Conference in Finance and Real Estate is now accepting submissions. Please see the Call for Papers. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS, will be held September 28-30, 2023, at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, in Bloomington. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The submission deadline is June 23, 2023, at 11:59 pm Eastern.

The dual submission decisions for the 12th MoFiR Workshop on Banking have been sent. If you did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

“Can Banks Save Mountains?” by David Haushalter, Joseph Henry, and Peter G. Iliev

The dual submission decisions for the OFR Rising Scholars Conference on the Future of Financial Stability have been sent. The program for the conference is available on the conference website. The conference will take place May 5, 2023, in Washington, DC.

The RCFS dual submission decisions for SFS Cavalcade North America 2023 have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission to RCFS and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

The Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality will be held June 1-2 at the Rizzo Conference Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Please see the conference website for more information. Those interested in attending should email Camelia Kuhnen for registration and accommodation information.

The May issue of RCFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Clawback Provisions and Firm Risk” by Ilona Babenko, Benjamin Bennett, John M. Bizjak, Jeffrey L. Coles, and Jason J. Sandvik

“ESG-Linked Compensation, CEO Skills, and Shareholders’ Welfare” by Swarnodeep Homroy, Taylan Mavruk, and Van Diem Nguyen

“Quasi-Insider Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance at the Periphery of Control” by Jonathan B. Cohn, Mitch Towner, and Aazam Virani