RCFS News

Angel investors, who invest their personal wealth, are more common than venture-capital (VC) investors in seed-stage startups. Yet, we know little about how these angel investors – with a more limited network than VCs – develop their financial networks. In a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks,” Buvaneshwaran Venugopal and Vijay Yerramilli show that co-investment is widespread among angel investors: Analyzing hand-collected data from the… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks

“The Disparate Effect of Nudges on Minority Groups” by Maya Haran Rosen and Orly Sade

“Economic Significance in Corporate Finance” by Todd Mitton

“Banks, Political Capital, and Growth” by Thomas Lambert, Wolf Wagner, and Eden Quxian Zhang

Decisions for submitted papers and registered reports have been sent. If you selected dual submission, you will receive a separate email in the coming weeks.

The 11th MoFiR Workshop on Banking is now accepting submissions. Please see the Call for Papers. The workshop, which features a dual submission option with RCFS, will take place in Lisbon on July 5-6, 2022. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The submission deadline is 6pm (GMT), Sunday January 30, 2022. 

“Do Ex-Bankers Benefit Non-Financial Firms? Evidence from Job Transitions” by Lucy Chernykh and Sergey Mityakov

The Editorial Board has received 33 Registered Reports on the subject of “Finance for the Greater Good” for the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference.

“Passivity on the Board of Directors” by Chris Yung “Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence based on Processing Time” by Bin Wei Federal and Feng Zhao

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), with over $500 billion distributed over a few months in 2020, was one of the largest stimulus programs in U.S. history. The program was created to help “small businesses” survive the COVID-19 shock. However, in a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Public Firm Borrowers of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program,” Anna Cororaton and Samuel Rosen document that nearly half of U.S. public firms were eligible for the… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Public Firm Borrowers of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program