Now available: Special Issue: Big Data in Finance
“Introduction: Big Data in Finance” by Itay Goldstein, Chester S. Spatt, and Mao Ye
Editor’s Choice: “Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning” by Isil Erel, Léa Stern, Chenhao Tan, and Michael S. Weisbach
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 Executive Editor Itay Goldstein was interviewed for the Publishing in Finance: Fireside Chats with Journal Editors webinar series. The interviewers were Manasa Gopal (Georgia Tech) and Zheng Sun (University of California, Irvine). The video is available to watch online – simply click here and scroll to May 26, 2021, Session 11.
The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 25 as part of the SFS Cavalcade. We are pleased to share the winners:
Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award
“Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change”
Michael Barnett, William Brock, and Lars Peter Hansen
Prize: $10,000
Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up (tie)
“On the Rise of FinTechs: Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints”
Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombović, and Manju Puri
Prize: $2500
“Monetary Transmission through Shadow Banks”
Kairong Xiao
Prize: $2500
Referee of the Year
Michael Weber
Prize: $1000
Distinguished Referees
Tania Babina
Michael Ewens
Kristoph Kleiner
Lars Lochstoer
Rising Scholar Award
“Monetary Transmission through Shadow Banks”
Kairong Xiao
Prize: $5000
Hillcrest Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance sponsored by Hillcrest Asset Management
“Financial Literacy Externalities”
Michael Haliassos, Thomas Jansson, and Yigitcan Karabulut
Prize: $5000
Congratulations to all our award winners!
The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(6) is “Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency” by Yukun Liu and Aleh Tsyvinski. You can read the paper free online.
On May 26 at 12pm, RFS Executive Editor Itay Goldstein will be participating in a fireside chat with AFFECT on publishing in finance. Register here.
The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(5) is “The Rise of Shadow Banking: Evidence from Capital Regulation” by Rustom M. Irani, Rajkamal Iyer, Ralf R. Meisenzahl, and José-Luis Peydró. You can read the paper free online.
The dual submission decisions for the NBER-RFS Inequality, Discrimination, and the Financial System conference have been sent. If you submitted your paper as a dual submission and did not receive your decision email, please contact us.
The Editor’s Choice paper for 34(4) is “How Do Consumers Fare When Dealing with Debt Collectors? Evidence from Out-of-Court Settlements” by Ing-Haw Cheng, Felipe Severino, and Richard R. Townsend. You can read the paper free online.
The program for the NBER-RFS Inequality, Discrimination, and the Financial System conference is now available. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RFS, will take place online April 1-2, 2021. The RFS sponsoring editors are Gregor Matvos, Manju Puri, and Tarun Ramadorai.
The conference will be live-streamed on NBER’s YouTube channel.
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