The 2nd World Symposium on Investment Research will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The submission period is open from October 20 to November 20, 2018. The conference will take place May 5-6, 2019, at Marriott Residence Inn Times Square. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
The Editor’s Choice article for 31(8) is “Real Effects of the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe: Evidence from Syndicated Loans” by Viral V. Acharya, Tim Eisert, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirschi. You can read the article free online.
We welcome Isil Erel as an Editor of RCFS. Isil is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Please join us in welcoming Isil to the team.
We extend our sincere thanks to Efraim Benmelech, who has retired as an Editor of RCFS. Effi has been with RCFS since the beginning and was an Editor for our inaugural issue. We thank him for his service to the journal.
The 2019 Conference on Current Research in FinTech will feature a dual submission option with RFS. The RFS sponsoring editor is Wei Jiang. The deadline for paper submissions is October 1, 2018. The conference will take place February 8-9, 2019, at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
The SFS is pleased to announce the addition of two new council members: Alon Brav of Duke University and Kai Li of UBC Sauder School of Business.
“How should a Firm Go Public? A Dynamic Model of the Choice Between Fixed-Price Offerings and Auctions in IPOs and Privatizations” by Thomas J. Chemmanur and Mark H. Liu
RCFS is pleased to announce the addition of the Rising Scholar Award. Authors are eligible for the prize if no author on the submitted paper received either their current academic appointment or most recent Ph.D. more than 6 years prior to when the paper was submitted to RCFS. For more information, visit Rising Scholar.
Please be advised of our new policy regarding dual submission papers. If your dual submission paper is invited to continue the submission process with the journal, the submission fee will be waived for the first round of submission to the journal. If there are subsequent rounds of submission, the standard submission fee will be required. This differs from our prior policy in which the fees were waived for dual submission… Read More »Submission Fees for Dual Submission Papers
“Equity Vesting and Investment,” which published in RFS issue 30(7), was referred to on CNBC on June 19 in a segment with SEC commissioner Robert Jackson. The paper’s authors are Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang, and Katharina A. Lewellen. The video is available to view online. This paper is an Editor’s Choice selection, which means you may also read the paper for free online.
