If you submitted a dual submission to RFS with the Texas Finance Festival 2021, you can expect to receive the dual submission decision in mid-October.
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Editor’s Choice 34(10)
The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(10) is “Fintech Borrowers: Lax Screening or Cream-Skimming?” by Marco Di Maggio and Vincent Yao. You can read the paper free online.
ECGI Corporations and COVID-19 Conference
The Call for Papers for the ECGI Corporations and COVID-19 conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RCFS and RFS, will take place June 2, 2022. The RCFS sponsoring editor is Andrew Ellul and the RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Holger Mueller. The submission deadline is October 29, 2021. For more details, please see the ECGI website.
Keynote by Manju Puri at Conference on Credit Risk over the Business Cycle
RFS Editor Manju Puri will be giving the keynote address at the conference on “Credit Risk over the Business Cycle,” jointly organized by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The conference will be held virtually from September 27-28, 2021, with Professor Puri’s speech on September 28. For additional information, please visit the conference website.
2022 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference
The Call for Papers for the 2022 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place February 18-19, 2022. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri. The submission deadline is October 25, 2021. For more details, please see the conference website.
Tarun Ramadorai in Financial Times
RFS Editor Tarun Ramadorai has published an op-ed in the Financial Times on using technology to reform household finance and help reduce wealth inequality in the aftermath of the pandemic. Check it out here!
Editor’s Choice 34(9)
The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(9) is “The Economics of the Fed Put” by Anna Cieslak and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. You can read the paper free online.
Special Issue: Real and Private Value Assets
Now available: Special Issue: Real and Private Value Assets
Introduction “Real and Private-Value Assets” by William N. Goetzmann, Christophe Spaenjers, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Editor’s Choice: “Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate” by Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, and Andreas Weber
Impact Factor
We are pleased to share that the RFS impact factor for 2019 has risen to 5.838 and the 5-year Impact Factor has risen to 9.358 (Clarivate, 2020). These results continue to be among the top ones in the field. OUP has granted temporary free access to some of RFS’s most cited papers.
Editorial Team Changes
We are pleased to share that Itay Goldstein has been renewed for another 3-year term as Executive Editor and Ralph Koijen has been renewed for a second term as an editor.
We are grateful to our retiring associate editors:
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Kenneth Ahern
Zhi Da
Vyacheslav Fos
Kai Li
Nadya Malenko
Veronika Pool
Alexi Savov
Michela Verardo
and welcome our incoming associate editors:
Jaroslav Borovicka (New York University)
Laurent Fresard (University of Lugano)
Cary Frydman (University of Southern California)
Andreas Fuster (EPFL)
Chotibhak Jotikasthira (Southern Methodist University)
Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Merih Sevilir (Indiana University)
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)
Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago).
