RFS News

The July issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Where Has All the Data Gone?” by Maryam Farboodi, Adrien Matray, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran

We are pleased to share that Holger Mueller and Manju Puri have been renewed for second terms as editors. We are grateful to our retiring associate editors: Manuel Adelino Carola Frydman Xavier Giroud Camelia Kuhnen Anna Pavlova And we welcome our incoming associate editors: Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Wenxin Du (University of Chicago) Michael Ewens (California Institute of Technology) Edith Hotchkiss (Boston College) Sabrina T. Howell (New York… Read More »Editorial Team Changes

The Call for Papers for the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place October 5-7, 2022, in Ispra, Italy. The RFS sponsoring editor is Tarun Ramadorai. The submission deadline is July 15, 2022, 12:00pm (BST).

The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception on May 23 as part of the SFS Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners: Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award “CAPM-Based Company (Mis)valuations” Olivier Dessaint, Jacques Olivier, Clemens A Otto, and David Thesmar Prize: $10,000 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up “Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate” Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, and Andreas Weber Prize: $5000 Referee… Read More »Winners of the RFS Awards

The June issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond” by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru

The May issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “The Cross-Section of Bank Value” by Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam

The dual submission decisions for the ECGI Corporations and COVID-19 Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

RFS Editor Manju Puri testified before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives, in a review of the Paycheck Protection Program on March 16, 2022. Her testimony was based on her research paper “Small Bank Financing and Funding Hesitancy in a Crisis: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program.” Her research suggests that small banks are more agile at disbursing PPP. Firms with small bank relationships were likely to… Read More »RFS Editor Manju Puri Testified Before the House Committee on Small Business

The March issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Consumers as Financiers: Consumer Surplus, Crowdfunding, and Initial Coin Offerings” by Jeongmin Lee and Christine A Parlour

The February issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Methodological Variation in Empirical Corporate Finance” Todd Mitton