Review of Corporate Finance Studies

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).

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 a paper, you can choose to submit it under the Prior Review Process. If you choose this option, you will be asked to upload the reviews from previous submissions of your paper to other journals. All material and correspondence sent to RCFS will be treated as private and confidential. If you are interested in this option, please see Prior Review Policy for more details.

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

The winners of the annual RCFS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26 as part of the Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners:

Best Paper Award
“Deposit Insurance, Bank Risk-Taking, and Failures: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century State Deposit Insurance Systems”
Felipe Aldunate
Prize: $10,000

Referee of the Year
Chotibhak Jotikasthira
Prize: $1000

For the first time ever, RCFS awarded the Rising Scholar Award, which is presented to a paper on which no author received either their current academic appointment or most recent PhD more than 6 years prior to when the paper was submitted to RCFS.

Rising Scholar Award
“Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises”
Boris Vallee
Prize: $5000

Congratulations to all our award winners!

On Monday, May 11 at 12:30 PM EST, Jeremy Stein will join a webinar, co-hosted by the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and the Society for Financial Studies, on the COVID-19 credit programs recently implemented by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. Stein is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a former Governor of the Federal Reserve.

The event will begin with a brief discussion by Markus Brunnermeier, Director of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance. Stein will then present. Both Brunnermeier and Stein will take questions from the audience throughout the event.

Preregistration is required.

RCFS has launched a Twitter account. Follow us @RevOfCorpFin.