RFS News

The dual submission decisions for 11th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

The dual submission decisions for Texas Finance Festival 2021 have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

Now available: Special Issue: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy Introduction “COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy” by Itay Goldstein, Ralph S. J. Koijen, and Holger M. Mueller Editor’s Choice: “The Macroeconomics of Epidemics” by Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt The entire issue is free access as part of OUP’s pledge to make COVID-19 content accessible.

RFS Editor Ralph Koijen is the recipient of the 20th edition of the Germán Bernácer Prize. The prize is awarded annually to “European economists no older than 40 years old who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance.”  

If you submitted a dual submission to RFS with the Texas Finance Festival 2021, you can expect to receive the dual submission decision in mid-October.

The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(10) is “Fintech Borrowers: Lax Screening or Cream-Skimming?” by Marco Di Maggio and Vincent Yao. You can read the paper free online.

The Call for Papers for the ECGI Corporations and COVID-19 conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS and RFS, will take place June 2, 2022. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul and the RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Holger Mueller. The submission deadline is October 29, 2021. For more details, please see the ECGI website.

RFS Editor Manju Puri will be giving the keynote address at the conference on “Credit Risk over the Business Cycle,” jointly organized by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The conference will be held virtually from September 27-28, 2021, with Professor Puri’s speech on September 28. For additional information, please visit the conference website.  

The Call for Papers for the 2022 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place February 18-19, 2022. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri. The submission deadline is October 25, 2021. For more details, please see the conference website.