Oxford University Press presents the Political Economy Collection, featuring two RFS papers: Political Influence and the Renegotiation of Government Contracts by Jonathan Brogaard, Matthew Denes, and Ran Duchin Government as Customer of Last Resort: The Stabilizing Effects of Government Purchases on Firms by Jim Goldman The featured papers are free to read through the end of January 2021 on Oxford University Press’s web site.
“Multifactor models and their consistency with the APT” by Ilan Cooper, Liang Ma, Paulo F. Maio, and Dennis Philip
The Call for Papers for Stockholm Business School’s 3rd Future of Financial Information Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, will take place May 19-21, 2021, both virtually and on campus. The RAPS sponsoring editor is Thierry Foucault and the RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul. The submission deadline is December… Read More »3rd Future of Financial Information Conference
“Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation” by Chester S. Spatt
The Editor’s Choice article for 33(11) is “Options Trading Costs Are Lower than You Think” by Dmitriy Muravyev and Neil D. Pearson. You can read the paper free online.
The 2021 RCFS Winter Conference is now accepting submissions. Please see the Call for Papers and the Call for Registered Reports on Discrimination, Disparities, and Diversity in Finance for more details. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS, will take place virtually on February 13 and 14, 2021. The sponsoring editors are Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Camelia Kuhnen, and Uday Rajan. The submission deadline is December 1, 2020,… Read More »Call for Papers: 2021 RCFS Winter Conference
Camelia Kuhnen begins her role as an editor of RCFS today. Camelia is a professor of finance and Sarah Graham Kenan distinguished scholar at UNC Kenan-Flagler and a faculty research associate at NBER. She is an expert in household finance, neuroeconomics, and corporate finance. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science. Camelia previously served as president of the Society… Read More »Camelia Kuhnen Joins the RCFS Team
The COVID-19 pandemic induced an unprecedented “stress test” on the financial system and the ability of banks to supply liquidity to the real economy. A new paper by Lei Li, Phil Strahan, and Song Zhang entitled “Banks as Lenders of First Resort: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis” starts with the following important observation: In the last three weeks of March 2020, banks… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Banks as Lenders of First Resort: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis
UPDATED NOVEMBER 16, 2020: The position has been filled. The Society of Financial Studies has an opening for a data collection assistant. This is a virtual position, which provides the flexibility to work where you wish. The typical workload is approximately 10 hours per week. Some familiarity with finance journals and papers is preferred. This position pays $20 per hour. Please send CV/resumes to manager@sfs.org by October 31, 2020.
The program for the 17th Annual Conference on Corporate Finance at Washington University is now available. The conference will take place October 30–31, 2020. Registration is required: register here. The conference features a session, joint with RCFS, on “financing innovations.”
