Editor’s Choice 10(3)
The Editor’s Choice paper for issue 10(3) is “Skilled Labor Risk and Corporate Policies” by Yue Qiu and Tracy Yue Wang. You can read the paper free online.
Keynote by Manju Puri at Conference on Credit Risk over the Business Cycle
RFS Editor Manju Puri will be giving the keynote address at the conference on “Credit Risk over the Business Cycle,” jointly organized by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The conference will be held virtually from September 27-28, 2021, with Professor Puri’s speech on September 28. For additional information, please visit the conference website.
Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2022
The 2022 RCFS Winter Conference is now accepting submissions. Please see the Call for Papers and the Call for Registered Reports/Proposals on “Finance for the Greater Good” for more details. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS, will take place February 19-20, at the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Florida. The sponsoring editors are Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Camelia Kuhnen, and Robert Marquez. The submission deadline is November 19, 2021,… Read More »Call for Papers and Proposals: RCFS Winter Conference 2022
Forthcoming Paper
“Public Firm Borrowers of the US Paycheck Protection Program” by Anna Cororaton and Samuel Rosen
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