The new issue of RCFS, 8(1) March 2019, has published online. If you have a subscription, you can read the issue online. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still read the Editor’s Choice paper for free online!
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Editor’s Choice: March
The Editor’s Choice paper for March 2019 (issue 8/1) is “Information: Hard and Soft” by José María Liberti and Mitchell A Petersen. You can read the article free online here.
2019 RCFS/RAPS Conference at Baha Mar
A few spots are open to attend the 2019 RCFS/RAPS Conference at Baha Mar. If you are interested in attending, please inquire via email to RCFS Editor Uday Rajan, indicating whether you wish to attend the RAPS or the RCFS sessions. The program may be viewed here.
The conference will take place Feb 15-17, 2019, at the Grand Hyatt in Baha Mar, Nassau, The Bahamas. For more information, please see the Call for Papers.
13th Jackson Hole Finance Conference
The 13th Jackson Hole Finance Conference will take place January 19-21, 2019, in Jackson Hole, WY. The conference features a dual submission option with RAPS and RCFS. For more, visit the conference web site.
Forthcoming Papers
“Short-Termism and Capital Flows” by Jesse Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
“Is It Time to Get Rid of Earnings-per-Share (EPS)?” by Heitor Almeida
Forthcoming Paper
“Deposit insurance, bank risk taking, and failures: Evidence from early twentieth-century state deposit insurance systems” by Felipe Aldunate
Rising Scholar Award
RCFS is now offering a Rising Scholar Award. The $5000 prize is awarded to a paper that was published in RAPS in which no author on the paper received either their current academic appointment or most recent Ph.D. more than 6 years prior to when the paper was submitted to RAPS. Is your paper eligible? Check the requirements and if you are eligible, remember to select “Rising Scholar” as your paper type when you submit to RCFS.
Forthcoming Papers
“Optimal Security Design under Asymmetric Information and Profit Manipulation” by Giulio Trigilia, Kostas Koufopoulos, and Roman Kozhan
“Inventory and Corporate Risk Management” by Marco Bianco and Andrea Gamba
Forthcoming Paper
“Information: Hard and Soft” by Jose Maria Liberti and Mitchell Petersen
2019 RCFS/RAPS Conference at Baha Mar
Following the success of the first RCFS conference last year, the Society for Financial Studies is hosting a joint RCFS/RAPS conference at Nassau in the Bahamas from February 15 to 17, 2019. The sponsoring editors are: (RCFS) Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Gregor Matvos, Uday Rajan, and (RAPS) Jeffrey Pontiff, Hui Chen, Thierry Foucault, and Nikolai Roussanov. The submission period is September 7 – November 1, 2018. The Call for Papers may be viewed here.
