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Paper Spotlight: Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19

The market reactions to the 2019 novel Coronavirus event, a truly exogenous shock, can help our understanding of how real economic shocks and financial policies drive firm value. In “Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19,” Stefano Ramelli and Alexander F. Wagner find strong causal evidence for the role of international trade and global value chains for corporate value. Initially, internationally-oriented firms, especially those more exposed to China, underperformed. As the… Read More »Paper Spotlight: Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19

Editor’s Choice 33(7)

The Editor’s Choice article for 33(7) is “On the Rise of FinTechs: Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints” by Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombović, and Manju Puri. You can read the paper free online.

Forthcoming Paper

“Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19” by Stefano Ramelli and Alexander F. Wagner

Call for Papers: ECB-RFS Macro-Finance Conference

The Call for Papers for the 2021 ECB-RFS Macro-Finance Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place March 22-23 at the ECB in Frankfurt. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Ralph Koijen. The submission deadline is November 15, 2020.

Statement of the SFS Council

The Society of Financial Studies Council believes that we cannot remain silent about the continued acts of racism that exist in our society. We acknowledge the numerous voices of the peaceful protesters and are determined to not let this moment pass without contributing to a changed society. In particular, the future of a robust financial system lies on the path of justice and equity. We are actively investigating ways to… Read More »Statement of the SFS Council

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.