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Paper Spotlight: Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies?

            Credit ratings agencies are important players in financial markets and they could contribute to efficient resource allocations through information generation. Often, though, expectations of this positive impact are not met in reality because of well-documented biases that credit rating agencies suffer from. Such issues can be due to revolving doors, home biases, and political beliefs of credit analysts. These biases can ultimately have a… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies?

Forthcoming Papers

“Price Uncertainty and Debt Covenants: Evidence from US Oil Producer” by Sandrine Docgne and Diogo Duarte “Regulatory Spillovers in Local Mortgage Markets” by Ivan Lim, Duc Duy Nguyen, and Linh Nguyen

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“Credit supply shocks: financing real growth or takeovers?” by Tobias Berg, Daniel Streitz, and Michael Wedow

Forthcoming Paper

“Board Reforms, Stock Liquidity, and Stock Market Development” by Buhui Qiu and Thomas To

Forthcoming Papers

“COVID-19 and Corporate Finance” by Marco Pagano and Josef Zechner “How Does Corporate Governance Impact Equity Volatility? Worldwide Evidence and Theory” by Alexandre Jeanneret and Louis Gagnon

Prior Review Process

RCFS has a submission option for papers that were previously reviewed by other journals. The goal of such review process is to help the editors arrive at a quick and informed decision on a paper based on feedback received by the authors from previous submissions. A paper is eligible for this optional review process if it was previously submitted to a few select journals; please see Prior Review Policy for details. If… Read More »Prior Review Process

Dual Submission Decisions

The dual submission decisions for the CSEF-RCFS Conference on Finance, Labor and Inequality 2022 have been sent. The dual submission decisions for the 11th MoFiR Workshop on Banking have also been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

Forthcoming Paper

“When Does Higher Firm Leverage Lead to Higher Employee Pay?” by Timothy Dore and Rebecca Zarutskie

Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2023

The 2023 RCFS Winter Conference is now accepting submissions. Please see the Call for Papers and the Call for Proposals on “Corporate Market Power: Drivers and Financial Consequences” for more details. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS, will take place February 18-19, 2023, at the Royal Sonesta in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The sponsoring editors are Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Camelia Kuhnen, and Robert Marquez. The… Read More »Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2023

Special Issue: August 11(3)

The August issue of RCFS has published! It is a Special Issue on “Discrimination, Disparity, and Diversity in Finance.” The Editor’s Choice paper is: Does Homeownership Reduce Wealth Disparities for Low-Income and Minority Households? Ashleigh Eldemire, Kimberly F. Luchtenberg, and Matthew M. Wynter The introduction is: “Discrimination, Disparities, and Diversity in Finance” Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Camelia Kuhnen, Uday Rajan, editors