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New Issue: November 35(11)

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The November issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “The Rise of Finance Companies and FinTech Lenders in Small Business Lending” by Manasa Gopal and Philipp Schnabl  

New Issue: November 11(4)

The November issue of RCFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies?” Kingsley Fong, Harrison Hong, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Jeffrey D. Kubik

Forthcoming Paper

“Predicting Returns Out of Sample: A Naïve Model Averaging Approach” by Huafeng (Jason) Chen, Liang Jiang, and Weiwei Liu

Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2023

2023 RCFS Winter Conference February 18-19, 2023 Royal Sonesta San Juan, Puerto Rico Call for Papers Submission Deadline: November 10, 2022 Call for Proposals on “Corporate Market Power: Drivers and Financial Consequences” Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022

Forthcoming Paper

“Do Nonfinancial Firms Use Financial Assets to Take Risk?” by Ran Duchin and Zhiyao Nicholas Chen

Paper Spotlight: Economic Significance in Corporate Finance

A recent trend in the reporting of empirical results in the finance literature has been to focus on the economic significance of the results, rather than simply stating the statistical significance of the documented effects. This is a welcome development that will help convey the importance of the empirical findings in our field. But what is the best way to measure economic significance? Should the effects be reported as a… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Economic Significance in Corporate Finance

Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2023

2023 RCFS Winter Conference February 18-19, 2023 Royal Sonesta San Juan, Puerto Rico Call for Papers Submission Deadline: November 10, 2022 Call for Proposals on “Corporate Market Power: Drivers and Financial Consequences” Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022

Impact Factor

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We are pleased to share that the RFS impact factor for 2021 has risen to 8.414, ranking it 2 out of 111 in the SSCI – Finance category and 10 out of 379 in the SSCI – Economics category (Clarivate, 2021).

Forthcoming Paper

“Firm Finances and the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Nursing Homes” by Taylor A. Begley and Daniel Weagley