Category: News

The August issue of RFS has published!

The Editor’s Choice paper is:

“Housing Consumption and Investment: Evidence from Shared Equity Mortgages” by Matteo Benetton, Philippe Bracke, João F Cocco, and Nicola Garbarino

The July issue of RFS has published!

The Editor’s Choice paper is:

“Where Has All the Data Gone?” by Maryam Farboodi, Adrien Matray, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran

We are pleased to share that Holger Mueller and Manju Puri have been renewed for second terms as editors.

We are grateful to our retiring associate editors:

Manuel Adelino
Carola Frydman
Xavier Giroud
Camelia Kuhnen
Anna Pavlova

And we welcome our incoming associate editors:

Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Wenxin Du (University of Chicago)
Michael Ewens (California Institute of Technology)
Edith Hotchkiss (Boston College)
Sabrina T. Howell (New York University)
Doron Levit (University of Washington)
Alan Moreira(University of Rochester)
Adi Sunderam (Harvard Business School)

Changes are effective July 1.

The Call for Papers for the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance is now available. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place October 5-7, 2022, in Ispra, Italy. The RFS sponsoring editor is Tarun Ramadorai. The submission deadline is July 15, 2022, 12:00pm (BST).

The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at the Awards Reception on May 23 as part of the SFS Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners:

Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award
“CAPM-Based Company (Mis)valuations”
Olivier Dessaint, Jacques Olivier, Clemens A Otto, and David Thesmar
Prize: $10,000

Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up
“Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate”
Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, and Andreas Weber
Prize: $5000

Referee of the Year sponsored by Cornerstone Research
Joan Farre-Mensa
Prize: $1000

Distinguished Referees sponsored by Cornerstone Research
Julia Fonseca
Francesco Franzoni
Boris Vallee
Mihail Velikov

Rising Scholar Award
“Incentivizing Financial Regulators”
Joseph Kalmenovitz
Prize: $5000

Hillcrest Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance sponsored by Hillcrest Asset Management
“Information Dispersion Across Employees and Stock Returns”
Ashwini Agrawal, Isaac Hacamo, Zhongchen Hu
Prize: $5000

Congratulations to all our award winners!

The June issue of RFS has published!

The Editor’s Choice paper is:

“The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond” by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru

The May issue of RFS has published!

The Editor’s Choice paper is:

“The Cross-Section of Bank Value” by Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam

The dual submission decisions for the ECGI Corporations and COVID-19 Conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.

RFS Editor Manju Puri testified before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives, in a review of the Paycheck Protection Program on March 16, 2022. Her testimony was based on her research paper “Small Bank Financing and Funding Hesitancy in a Crisis: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program.” Her research suggests that small banks are more agile at disbursing PPP. Firms with small bank relationships were likely to gain early PPP access and face less crowding out by larger firms in getting PPP funds sooner.

You can see her written testimony at

https://smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/03-16-22_dr._puri_testimony.pdf

You can watch her testimony at the hearing at

https://youtu.be/_U91vkVAPtc?t=4453.