RFS News

Oxford University Press presents the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection, featuring the following papers from RFS: Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship by Tania Babina The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments by Christophe Pérignon and Boris Vallée How Valuable Is FinTech Innovation? by Mark A. Chen, Qinxi Wu, and Baozhong Yang Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China by Lily H. Fang,… Read More »Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection

The part-time RFS advisory editor position has been filled. We are no longer accepting applications.

Issue 33(5) of RFS is a special issue, edited by G. Andrew Karolyi and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The editorial is free to read online. The Editor’s Choice paper is “Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models” by Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

The Editor’s Choice article for 33(4) is “Informing the Market: The Effect of Modern Information Technologies on Information Production” by Meng Gao and Jiekun Huang. You can read the paper free online.

The dual submission decisions for the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

Issue 33(3) of RFS is a special issue, edited by Harrison Hong, G. Andrew Karolyi, and José A. Scheinkman. This special issue is the result of a 2017-8 initiative by the RFS editorial team to develop research proposals on Climate Finance. The editorial is free to read online. The Editor’s Choice paper is “Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change” by Michael Barnett, William Brock, and Lars Peter Hansen.

The International Center for Finance at Yale has posted a recap of the Yale-RFS Conference on Real and Private-Value Assets. The conference took place January 31, 2020, at the Yale School of Management. Read the recap and see the photos here.

The Editor’s Choice article for 33(2) is “Financial Frictions and the Great Productivity Slowdown” by Romain Duval, Gee Hee Hong, and Yannick Timmer. You can read the paper free online.