RFS News

The October issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Financing Competitors: Shadow Banks’ Funding and Mortgage Market Competition” by Erica Xuewei Jiang

The September issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets” by Nathan Converse, Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, and Tomas Williams

We are pleased to share that the RFS impact factor for 2022 is 8.2, ranking 4 out of 111 in the SSCI Finance category and 14 out of 380 in the SSCI Economics category.

The August issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Dollar and Exports” by Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin

Juhani Linnainmaa is stepping down from the editorial position at the Review of Financial Studies as of July 1st, 2023. He has taken on a position of Co-Director of Research at Kepos Capital (in addition to his appointment at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College). He’ll continue handling the papers that he was assigned at the Review of Financial Studies before July 1st, 2023. We thank him for his service and wish him… Read More »Editorial Team Change

The July issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors” by Emirhan Ilhan, Philipp Krueger, Zacharias Sautner, and Laura T Starks

We thank the following Associate Editors, who have completed their terms: Tobias Berg Anna Cieslak Andra Ghent Arthur Korteweg Justin Murfin Giorgia Piacentino David Solomon And we welcome our incoming Associate Editors: Turan Bali (Georgetown University) Janet Gao (Georgetown University) Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas) Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School) Andrey Malenko (University of Michigan) Carolin Pflueger (University of Chicago) Changes are effective July 1.

We are very grateful to Lauren Cohen and Stefano Giglio, who are retiring as Editors. Lauren has been an Editor with RFS since 2017, and Stefano has been an Editor with RFS since 2020. We thank them for their service. We are pleased to share that Clemens Siam (University of Texas at Austin) and Anna Pavlova (London Business School) are joining the RFS team as Editors. Gregor Matvos and Tarun… Read More »Editorial Team Changes

The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at SFS Cavalcade North America 2023. We are pleased to share the winners: Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award “The Cross-Section of Bank Value” Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam Prize: $10,000 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up “Methodological Variation in Empirical Corporate Finance” Todd Mitton Prize: $5000 Referee of the Year Nadya Malenko Prize: $1000 Distinguished Referees Ilona Babenko Matteo Benetton Asaf… Read More »Winners of the RFS Awards