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Paper Spotlight: The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings

                Initial coin offerings are fast becoming a new type of crowdfunding for blockchain-related startups. In this type of offerings, an entrepreneur raises capital through the creation and selling of virtual currencies or “tokens,” which themselves give rights to their holders (for example, access to a platform). As is to be expected, there are severe problems of information asymmetry associated with these instruments… Read More »Paper Spotlight: The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings

Deadline Approaching: RCFS Winter Conference

The deadline to submit a paper to the 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is only a week away! For details, visit Call for Papers. Papers must be submitted by November 19, 2021. The deadline for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” is December 5, 2021.

Keynote by Manju Puri at FBF-SRB-SAFE Conference

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RFS Editor Manju Puri will be giving a keynote entitled “Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed-Bank Resolution in the Crisis” at the FBF-SRB-SAFE Conference on Bank Crisis Management – What Next? The conference will be held online from November 17-18, 2021.

Forthcoming Paper

“Regulation, Asset Complexity, and the Informativeness of Credit Ratings” by Rainer Jankowitsch, Giorgio Ottonello, and Marti G. Subrahmanyam

Forthcoming Paper

“Is Economic Uncertainty a Valid Intertemporal CAPM State Variable?” by Qi Lin

Submission Period Open for Cavalcade North America

The submission period for SFS Cavalcade North America 2022 is now open. To submit, please visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2022. The deadline for submissions is December 13, 2021. Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features a dual submission option with the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.

Advisory Editor

We are pleased to welcome Tengfei Zhang to the advisory editor team. We thank Xin Fan for her service in the advisory editor role.

11th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference Decisions

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The dual submission decisions for 11th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

Upcoming Cavalcade Locations

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We are pleased to share the hosts for the next two SFS Cavalcade North America conferences: 2022: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 22-25 2023: University of Texas at Austin, dates TBA The submission period for 2022 opens next week!