Category: News

“Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks” by Vicente Cunat, Dragana Cvijanovic, and Kathy Yuan

The program for SFS Cavalcade North America 2018 is now available on the conference web site.

You may register for SFS Cavalcade North America 2018 on the conference web site. The conference will take place May 21-24, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Early registration will be $100 for members and $140 for nonmembers. Beginning April 8, the registration rate will increase to $125 for members and $165 for nonmembers. The registration fee is waived for doctoral students (from any university) and Yale University faculty members.

Editor Gregor Matvos’s paper, “The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct,” is featured on Forbes.com in a post by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. The paper is co-authored with Mark Egan and former RCFS Editor Amit Seru. You can view the post online here.

“An Unexpected Test of the Bonding Hypothesis” by Louis Gagnon and G. Andrew Karolyi

RCFS announces its first conference, which will be held February 16-18, 2018, in Nassau, the Bahamas. The sponsoring editors are Paolo Fulghieri, Efraim Benmelech, Gregor Matvos, and Uday Rajan. The submission deadline is October 31, 2017. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.

“Identification is not Causality, and Vice Versa” by R. Jay Kahn and Toni Whited

The Editor’s Choice paper for September 2017 (issue 6/2) is “Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth” by Wei Jiang. You can read the article free online here.

The UBC Winter Finance Conference 2018 will feature a dual submission option with RCFS and RAPS. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Paolo Fughieri and the RAPS sponsoring editor is Wayne Ferson. The deadline for paper submissions is November 19, 2017. The conference will take place March 2-4, 2018, at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.