RCFS News

“Public Corruption in the United States: Implications for Local Firms” by Nishant Dass, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao

“How Does Corporate Investment Respond to Increased Entry Threat” by Laurent Fresard and Philip  Valta

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming SFS Finance Cavalcade conference will again offer a dual submission option with RCFS. The Cavalcade submission period opens November 9, 2015, and closes December 7, 2015. For details, visit Cavalcade 2016.

“Asset Fire Sales by Banks: Evidence from Commercial REO Sales” by Yongqiang Chu and “Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis? Regulating Bank Leverage When There Is Rent-seeking and Risk-shifting” by Viral Acharya, Hamid Mehran, and Anjan Thakor

The 26th Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will feature a dual submission option with RCFS. The conference will take place February 4-6, 2016.

The new issue of RCFS 4(2) September 2015 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!

The Editor’s Choice article for September 2015 (issue 4/2) is “The Financial Crisis of 2007–2009: Why Did It Happen and What Did We Learn?” by Anjan V. Thakor. You can read the article free online here.

“A Theory of Capital Structure, Price Impact, and Long-Run Stock Returns under Heterogeneous Beliefs” by Onur Bayar, Thomas J. Chemmanur, and Mark H.  Liu

The fee for submitting to an SFS journal (RAPS, RCFS, or RFS) will be increasing on July 1, 2015. The new submission fee will be $240 for members and $300 for nonmembers. Accordingly, we’ll also be increasing our referee payments. The new referee payment for an on-time report will be $200, beginning July 1.

RCFS welcomes the following new Associate Editors to the editorial team: Philip Bond Alex Edmans Radhakrishnan Gopalan Gregor Matvos We thank retiring Associate Editors Erwan Morellec and Gordon Phillips for their service. All changes are effective July 1, 2015.