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Chairs for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific

The SFS is happy to announce that the Vice Chair for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific will be Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Associate Chair will be Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong). They join Chair Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University). The 2020 conference has been postponed to 2021.

Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021

The SFS is happy to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School). Professor Ivashina joins Chair Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley) and Vice Chair Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA).

Postponed: SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2020

SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, which was to take place December 11-13, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. We thank the hosts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Finance Institute, for their flexibility.  

Associate Editors

We welcome the following associate editors to the RCFS team: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Jonathan Cohn (University of Texas at Austin) Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia) Andrey Malenko (University of Michigan) Paige Oiumet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Giorgia Piacentino (Columbia University) Adriano Rampini (Duke University) Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford).

Editorial Team Updates

Dimitri Vayanos and Clemens Sialm have been renewed for 3-year terms as associate editors. We thank Pietro Veronesi, who is retiring as an associate editor.

Editorial Team Changes

We extend our gratitude to Philip Strahan and Stijn Van Niewerburgh, who are retiring as editors of RFS. Phil has been an editor since 2014 and Stijn since 2016. Both previously served as associate editors. We thank them for their service to the journal. We are pleased to share that Lauren Cohen has been renewed for another 3-year term as an editor. We are also grateful to our retiring associate… Read More »Editorial Team Changes

Stefano Giglio Joining the RFS Team

We are pleased to announce that Stefano Giglio will be joining RFS as an editor. Stefano is a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, an NBER Research Associate, and a CEPR Research Affiliate, and previously served as an associate editor of RFS. His first day will be July 1.

Introducing the Prior Review Process

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies is introducing a Prior Review Process. The goal of such review process is to help the editors arrive at a quick and informed decision on a paper based on feedback received by the authors from previous submissions. A paper is eligible for this optional review process if it was previously submitted to a few select journals. Starting on June 1, 2020, when you submit… Read More »Introducing the Prior Review Process

Editor Update

RCFS extends our gratitude to retiring editor Gregor Matvos. Gregor has been an editor with RCFS since 2016. We thank him for his service.

Forthcoming Paper

“Brand Equity, Earnings Management, and Financial Reporting Irregularities” by Ghada Ismail, Fariz Huseynov, Pankaj  K. Jain, and Thomas H. McInish