RCFS News

Following the success of the first RCFS conference last year, the Society for Financial Studies is hosting a joint RCFS/RAPS conference at Nassau in the Bahamas from February 15 to 17, 2019. The sponsoring editors are: (RCFS) Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Gregor Matvos, Uday Rajan, and (RAPS) Jeffrey Pontiff, Hui Chen, Thierry Foucault, and Nikolai Roussanov. The submission period is September 7 – November 1, 2018. The Call for Papers may… Read More »2019 RCFS/RAPS Conference at Baha Mar

The new issue of RCFS, 7(2) September 2018, has published online. If you have a subscription, you can read the issue online. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still read the Editor’s Choice paper for free online!

The Editor’s Choice paper for September 2018 (issue 7/2) is “Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan. You can read the article free online here.

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.

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.

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.

“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

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.

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.

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.