We are grateful to Antoinette Schoar, who is retiring as SFS President. Antoinette has served as President since 2020. She also served chairing roles for SFS Cavalcade North America from 2017-2019. We are pleased that current SFS Vice President Wei Jiang (Columbia Business School) will transition to the President role. Wei has served as Vice President since 2020, was an editor of… Read More »SFS President and Vice President
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
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the SFS, we’ve created a video message featuring our founders and some of our past Presidents. This video, which played at lunch at the SFS Cavalcade conference, answers the question: Why is it called the Cavalcade? Featuring: George Constantinides, Founding Member & President 1991-1994 Chester Spatt, Founding Member & President 1994-1997 Michael Brennan, Founding Member & President 1997-1999 Milton… Read More »Video Message Celebrating 35 Years of the SFS
Fostering diversity implies inclusiveness and support of LGBTQ+ communities. LGBTQ+ issues have been the subject of deep and polarized debates in the wider society. Corporations, being an integral component of society, need to make important choices on this polarizing topic. It should be no surprise that the corporate world has produced examples of firms that have been open about their support to the LGBTQ+ community… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Determinants of LGBTQ+ Corporate Policies
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).
“Equity Issuance Methods and Dilution” by Mike Burkart and Hongda Zhong “Delegated Investment Management in Alternative Assets” by Aleksandar Andonov
The keynote presentations from SFS Cavalcade North America 2022 are posted on the Cavalcade website: Cavalcade Keynote “Intangible Capital” Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA) Review of Corporate Finance Studies Keynote “Cross-Subsidies in Household Finance” Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) Review of Asset Pricing Studies Keynote “COVID-19 and the Principles of Economics” Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University)
“The Effect of Innovation Similarity on Asset Prices: Evidence from Patents’ Big Data” by Ron Bekkerman, Eliezer M. Fich, and Natalya Khimich
The gender pay gap is one glaring example of discrimination. Some states, though, have adopted salary history bans to limit the perpetuation of previous discrimination. In the presence of salary history bans, employers cannot request and utilize a job candidate’s previous salary information. However, such bans have a possible unintended consequence: preventing potential employers from being able to observe worker productivity—that is, blocking… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Hidden Performance: Salary History Bans and the Gender Pay Gap
RCFS Executive Editor Andrew Ellul was interviewed for the Publishing in Finance: Fireside Chats with Journal Editors webinar series. The interviewers were Lea Stern (University of Washington) and Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The video is available to watch online – simply click here and scroll to May 18, 2022, Session 3.
