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
“Do Nonfinancial Firms Use Financial Assets to Take Risk?” by Ran Duchin and Zhiyao Nicholas Chen
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
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
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).
“Firm Finances and the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Nursing Homes” by Taylor A. Begley and Daniel Weagley
Empirical research typically builds on the findings of prior studies. New tests rely on previously identified determinants of the outcome variable studied as controls. Authors of a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Disregarding the Shoulders of Giants: Inferences from Innovation Research,” David Reeb and Wanli Zhao observe this process is often ad hoc. Using past research on corporate innovation as a platform, authors show that only a small subset of proposed determinants… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Disregarding the Shoulders of Giants: Inferences from Innovation Research
“Firm listing status, firm size, and the financing of investment” by Mathias Lé and Frederic Vinas
“The Geography of Sub-advisors, Managerial Structure, and the Performance of International Equity Mutual Funds” by Markus Sebastian Broman, Michael Densmore, and Pauline M. Shum Nolan
We’re happy to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2023 will be Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School). Professor Veldkamp joins Chair Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School) and Vice Chair Jules van Binsbergen (The Wharton School).
