The @revoffinance launches a new First Choice policy to reduce over-refereeing. Papers not yet submitted to JF/JFE/RFS are eligible; first round is either a Cond. Accept or a Reject. Rejected papers can be later submitted. Kudos to editors for this idea. revfin.org/introducing-th…

Delighted that my paper with Nick Gantchev and Rachel Li is now published in Journal of Financial Economics

Sustainability or performance? Ratings and fund managers’ incentives sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last call! Submit your papers on the economic impact of AI in Finance research.

The deadline to submit is this Sunday, April 7 11.59 pm ET.

sites.google.com/view/ai-financ…

Excited to be part of this amazing event. Submit your best papers and join!

Come and join the webinar on 9 April, 15:00-16:00 BS, with Raghu Rau and myself, about the Essentials of Sustainable Finance programme at CJBS Exec Ed !

Sign up here:
jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/the-ess…

#SustainableFinance | #ESG | #ResponsibleInvesting

Can We Trust ESG Research? Join us for our upcoming lecture to find out! go.iu.edu/6yEv
📆 April 4 @ 9am ET | OR register to receive the recording

Exciting times for the #WEFIDEV network in #Finance & #Development ! Great website, new season of webinars from Monday 18th + our 3rd #WEFIDEV in-person conference at Università Bocconi SDA Bocconi next month! Link to the webinars ⬇️ & conference program out soon. Interested? DM us

HEC-HKUST Sustainable Finance Webinar is back! Four biweekly seminars in March and April with great papers, mixing European and Asian-Pacific perspectives, theory and empirics: sites.google.com/view/hec-hkust…

Program 👇

Call for Papers:  Columbia & RFS AI in Finance Conference!

The conference features optional dual submission to RFS. Submission deadline: April 7, 2024.

I am organizing this with Ansgar Walther. RFS sponsoring editors: Itay Goldstein, Tarun Ramadorai.

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Kelly Shue and I are organizing an NBER training workshop for PhD students & junior scholars on the Economics of Executive Compensation on June 17-18, 2024, in Cambridge, MA.

Applications close on March 6.

#CorpGov #EconTwitter

nber.org/calls-papers-a…

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PhD students, Feb 16 deadline approaching! Submit to the 2nd European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop. Keynote by Roni Michaely! Travel stipends and free accommodation. Details below

We study how #institutionalinvestors #vote on directors, focusing on concerns like board independence, #diversity , and #governance . Dissent on these issues prompts improvements in board composition, signalling the impact of #votingrationales in communicating #shareholder concerns

ESG is under attack. True believers wish to keep it but rebrand it; opponents seek to ban it outright. What's the alternative? This new paper proposes Rational Sustainability: pursuing long-term value while recognising diminishing returns and trade-offs. ssrn.com/abstract=47011…

Journal of Corporate Finance is happy to see all those great corporate papers. Is this a good time to mention our impact factor is 6.1? 🤔 (Up again this year!)

Nadya and Andrey Malenko and I are organizing the next Finance Theory Group conference. The topic is bridging theory and empirical research in finance.

The announcement is here:

ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/j…

New thinking from Warwick Business School underlines importance of CEO succession planning.

As we know, not enough boards are on it. It's about risk management & org resilience; but also retaining talent and sustaining org culture & success

wbs.ac.uk/news/five-reas…

#BeingTheCEO

WEFI continues! Looking forward to your submissions.

If you're a junior scholar in finance or accounting whose research touches on diversity, this is a valuable workshop (submit by Feb 29).

foster.uw.edu/centers/consul…

The most value add from this? Small group interaction and individual advice on navigating the publication process.

(1/5) CEO Compensation: Evidence from the Field (with
Tom Gosling and Dirk Jenter) is the Editor's Choice article in the December 2023 Journal of Financial Economics. We survey directors and investors on how they set and influence CEO pay.

We look forward to receiving your submissions to the 3rd #WEFIDEV CEPR workshop in #Finance and #Development . Super excited for the Milan 'chapter' of our in-person gathering! Huge thanks to Jacopo Ponticelli for agreeing to be our keynote. Sean Higgins Kim Fe Cramer Nicola Limodio