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Associate Editors

We are pleased to welcome the following Associate Editors to the RCFS team: Jan Bena (University of British Columbia) Marco Di Maggio (Harvard Business School) Michelle Lowry (Drexel University) Kelly Shue (Yale School of Management) Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota) Their terms begin today, November 1, 2021.

Call for Papers: UBC Winter Finance Conference 2022

The Call for Papers for the UBC Winter Finance Conference 2022 conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS, will take place March 4-6, 2022. The RAPS sponsoring editors are Jeffrey Pontiff and Zhiguo He, and the RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The submission deadline is November 22, 2021. For more details, please see the Call for Papers.

Forthcoming Paper

“Shadow Insurance? Money Market Fund Investors and Bank Sponsorship” by Stefan Jacewitz, Haluk Unal, and Chengjun Wu

Paper Spotlight: Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections

              Recent survey evidence shows that the list of institutional investors paying close attention to environmental issues, with a consequent impact on their investment decisions, is increasing. A central factor that ought to be considered is the role of government regulation, especially the uncertainty surrounding it, and subsequent response of firms to those regulations against the background of a worsening environmental scenario. This is… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections

Texas Finance Festival Decisions

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The dual submission decisions for Texas Finance Festival 2021 have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2022

2022 RCFS Winter Conference February 19-20, 2022 Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort, Florida RCFS Sponsoring Editors: Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Camelia Kuhnen, Robert Marquez Call for Papers Submission Deadline: November 19, 2021 Call for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” Submission Deadline: December 5, 2021

Special Issue: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy

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Now available: Special Issue: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy Introduction “COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy” by Itay Goldstein, Ralph S. J. Koijen, and Holger M. Mueller Editor’s Choice: “The Macroeconomics of Epidemics” by Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt The entire issue is free access as part of OUP’s pledge to make COVID-19 content accessible.

Forthcoming Papers

“Capital Structure Priority Effects in Durations, Stock-Bond Comovements, and Factor Pricing Models” by Jaewon Choi, Matthew Richardson, and Robert Whitelaw “Inventory-Constrained Underwriters and Corporate Bond Offerings” by Florian Nagler and Giorgio Ottonello

Paper Spotlight: Public Firm Borrowers of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), with over $500 billion distributed over a few months in 2020, was one of the largest stimulus programs in U.S. history. The program was created to help “small businesses” survive the COVID-19 shock. However, in a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Public Firm Borrowers of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program,” Anna Cororaton and Samuel Rosen document that nearly half of U.S. public firms were eligible for the… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Public Firm Borrowers of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program