Final Day to Register: RCFS Winter Conference
Today is the final day to register for the RCFS Winter Conference. Registration is available on the conference web site.
Today is the final day to register for the RCFS Winter Conference. Registration is available on the conference web site.
Differences in their objective functions lead to possible conflicts of interests between various stakeholders of firms; e.g., between shareholders and employees. These conflicts are more likely to manifest when firms face important investment or governance decisions, specifically, at times of mergers and acquisitions. How does the power of a firm’s labor force affect its exposure and gains in takeovers? In a forthcoming RCFS paper, “Hard Marriage with Heavy Burdens: Organized… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Hard Marriage with Heavy Burdens: Organized Labor as Takeover Deterrents
Congratulations to RFS editor Ralph S. J. Koijen and former editor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, who have won the 2020 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security!
RAPS Executive Editor Jeffrey Pontiff is quoted in “Online traders power up silver as GameStop retreats” in The Washington Post.
The dual submission decisions for the 2021 RCFS Winter Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
The dual submission decisions for the 3rd Future of Financial Information Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission to RAPS and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
The relationship between hedge fund activists and institutional shareholders in firms targeted by activists could be fraught with conflicting interests, making it a very important question to explore. In the paper “Institutional Investors and Hedge Fund Activism,” Simi Kedia, Laura Starks, and Xianjue Wang study how differences among institutional investors impact their willingness to support hedge fund activists, the impact on the campaign’s success, and potential value created from hedge… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Institutional Investors and Hedge Fund Activism
The program for the RCFS Winter Conference is now available. The conference will be held virtually from February 12-14, 2021. Registration is available on the conference web site. The deadline to register is February 8.
“A Panel Regression Approach to Holdings-based Fund Performance Measures” by Wayne Ferson and Junbo Wang
The dual submission decisions for the 2021 ECB-RFS Macro-Finance Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.