Forthcoming Paper
“Revealed Heuristics: Evidence from Investment Consultants’ Search Behavior” by Sudheer Chava, Soohun Kim, and Daniel Weagley
2022 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference
The Call for Papers for the 2022 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place February 18-19, 2022. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri. The submission deadline is October 25, 2021. For more details, please see the conference website.
SFS Post-Doc Position Available
UPDATED OCTOBER 26, 2021: The position has been filled. An SFS Advisory Editor position is available for the next academic year; the start date is flexible. The position is a particularly good fit for finance/economics post-docs or late-stage PhD students. The primary task is to provide editorial support in the review process and requires about 10 hours per week with a minimum commitment for one year (or preferably for two… Read More »SFS Post-Doc Position Available
Forthcoming Paper
“Foreign Banks, Liquidity Shocks, and Credit Stability” by Daniel Belton, Leonardo Gambacorta, Sotirios Kokas, and Raoul Minetti
Forthcoming Paper
“Characterizing the Variance Risk Premium: The Role of the Leverage Effect” by Guanglian Hu, Kris Jacobs, and Sang Byung Seo
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 and… Read More »Paper Spotlight: The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings
Forthcoming Paper
“Learning from Noise? Price and Liquidity Spillovers around Mutual Fund Fire Sales” by Pekka Honkanen and Daniel Schmidt
Paper Spotlight: Competition for Flow and Short-Termism in Activism
It is not just managers that can have a short-term orientation—the forthcoming theoretical paper “Competition for Flow and Short-Termism in Activism,” by Mike Burkart and Amil Dasgupta, shows that activist funds too can focus on the short term. In the model, activists add value by preventing wastage by the manager. To signal their type to their own investors, they take a short-term action such as boosting leverage to make a… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Competition for Flow and Short-Termism in Activism
University of Oklahoma Energy and Climate Finance Research Conference
The Call for Papers for the 2022 (Fourth) University of Oklahoma Energy and Climate Finance Research Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place April 22-23, 2022. The RFS sponsoring editor is Stefano Giglio. The submission deadline is November 30, 2021. For more details, please see the conference website.
Tarun Ramadorai in Financial Times
RFS Editor Tarun Ramadorai has published an op-ed in the Financial Times on using technology to reform household finance and help reduce wealth inequality in the aftermath of the pandemic. Check it out here!