Review of Corporate Finance Studies

RCFS Editor Amit Seru’s research is featured  in a Chicago Tribune piece, “Study finds reason to be wary of financial advisers” and in a Washington Post piece, “This is how unethical financial advisers can get away with it.”

The new issue of RCFS 5(1) March 2016 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can also view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!

“Innovation, Competition, and Investment Timing” by Yrjo Koskinen and Joril Maeland

A new working paper titled “Do Acceptance and Publication Times Differ Across Finance Journals?” by Craig Holden examines the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to final-round acceptance for the top-20 finance journals and top-tier business journals. He finds that the two fastest finance journals are the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, with median acceptance times of 7.3 months and 7.8 months, respectively. For the top-three finance journals, he finds that the median acceptance time at the Journal of Financial Economics is 9.9 months, at the Review of Financial Studies is 15.3 months, and at the Journal of Finance is 19.8 months. See his paper on SSRN.

“Skewness Preference and Seasoned Equity Offers” by Don M. Autore and Jared DeLisle

“Public Corruption in the United States: Implications for Local Firms” by Nishant Dass, Vikram Nanda, and Steven Chong Xiao

“How Does Corporate Investment Respond to Increased Entry Threat” by Laurent Fresard and Philip  Valta

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming SFS Finance Cavalcade conference will again offer a dual submission option with RCFS. The Cavalcade submission period opens November 9, 2015, and closes December 7, 2015. For details, visit Cavalcade 2016.

“Asset Fire Sales by Banks: Evidence from Commercial REO Sales” by Yongqiang Chu

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“Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis? Regulating Bank Leverage When There Is Rent-seeking and Risk-shifting” by Viral Acharya, Hamid Mehran, and Anjan Thakor

The 26th Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will feature a dual submission option with RCFS. The conference will take place February 4-6, 2016.