Category Archives: News

“Why Do Firms Sit on Cash? An Asymmetric Information Approach” by Milton Harris and Artur Raviv 

“Lending to Innovative Firms” by Sudheer Chava, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao

“Information Revelation in Merger Waves” by Pablo Moran

“Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth” by Wei Jiang

The Editor’s Choice article for March 2017 (issue 6/1) is “Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang” by Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso. You can read the article free online here.

The winners of the RCFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception at SFS Cavalcade North America. We are pleased to now share the winners:

Best Paper Award
“Spillovers in Local Banking Markets”
by Mark J. Garmaise and Gabriel Natividad
Prize: $10,000

Referee of the Year
Daniel Ferreira
Prize: $1000

Congratulations to all our award winners!

For past award history, please visit our Awards page.

RCFS welcomes Camelia Kuhnen as an Associate Editor. We are also pleased to announce that Daniel Paravisini, Steven Kaplan, and Bilge Yilmaz are continuing as Associate Editors. We thank retiring Associate Editor Viral Acharya.

All changes are effective July 1, 2017, except Viral Acharya, whose term ended in 2016.

The new issue of RCFS 6(1) March 2017 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!

“Do Acceptance and Publication Times Differ Across Finance Journals?“ by Craig W. Holden

“Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang” by Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso

The 2017 UBC Winter Finance Conference will feature a dual submission option with RCFS. The conference will take place March 3-5, 2017. For more, visit the conference web site.