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Best Paper Awards at CSEF-RCFS Conference on Labor, Finance, and Inequality

The winners of the best paper awards at the CSEF-RCFS Conference on Finance, Labor, and Inequality are: “Owner Culture and Pay Inequality within Firms,” by Jan Bena, Guangli Lu, and Iris Wang “Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance,” by J. Carter Braxton, Gordon Phillips, and Kyle Herkenhoff “Early exposure to entrepreneurship and the creation of female entrepreneurs,” by Mikkel Baggesgaard Mertz, Maddalena Ronchi, and Viola Salvestrini The program… Read More »Best Paper Awards at CSEF-RCFS Conference on Labor, Finance, and Inequality

New Issue: July 35(7)

The July issue of RFS has published! The Editor’s Choice paper is: “Where Has All the Data Gone?” by Maryam Farboodi, Adrien Matray, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran

Paper Spotlight: Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence Based on Processing Time

Various studies provide evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in residential mortgage lending, and show that minorities face a higher probability of being denied a mortgage and a higher cost of capital when they are approved for one. In “Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence Based on Processing Time,” Bin Wei and Feng Zhao investigate a dimension about which very little is known, the time to process a loan… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence Based on Processing Time

Editorial Team Changes

We are grateful to our retiring associate editors: Carola Frydman Victoria Ivashina Daniel Paravisini And we welcome our incoming associate editors: Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics) Sabrina Howell (New York University) Rawley Heimer (Boston College) Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth School of Business) Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis) Alminas Zaldokas (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Changes are effective July 1.

Editorial Team Changes

We are grateful to our retiring associate editors: Roger Edelen Sydney Ludvigson Jun Pan Andrew Patton Changes are effective July 1.

SFS President and Vice President

                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

Editorial Team Changes

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

Video Message Celebrating 35 Years of the SFS

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

Paper Spotlight: Determinants of LGBTQ+ Corporate Policies

            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