Special theme on: Emerging Issues in Corporate Finance and Banking (Published in 2023)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Review of Corporate Finance
Special theme on: Emerging Issues in Corporate Finance and Banking
Special Theme Handling Editors:
Claudia Girardone, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Ornella Ricci, University of Roma Tre, Italy
The landscape in which firms and banks operate has changed dramatically over recent years. Business disruptions due to the Covid-19 outbreak, natural disasters and cyber incidents have exposed vulnerabilities and created new challenges on multiple fronts. Further, global GDP is expected to decline, and banks could soon be dealing with substantial credit losses and bankruptcies. Nevertheless, several important trends have emerged that could turn crisis into opportunities for both financial and non-financial firms. These include the accelerated investments in digital technologies and innovations, and the more serious commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
Consolidation and restructuring will likely play an important role to help banks regain their competitiveness and profitability, with new business models expected to emerge. However, progress might crucially depend on political and institutional factors. In addition, in the post-Covid world, regulatory and supervisory authorities will face many challenges to guarantee a level playing field in banking that also provides smooth financing for firms, especially small businesses.
More theoretical and empirical research is needed in these areas. This Special Issue of the Review of Corporate Finance invites submissions of high-quality articles relevant to emerging topics at the intersection between corporate finance and banking, including (but not limited to):
- ESG issues and sustainable finance
- Fintech and digitalisation
- Firm resilience and bank stability
- New bank business models
- SMEs’ access to finance and bank relationships
- Political environment and firm performance
- Profitability of banks and lending standards
- Risks, competition and lending
- Trust, ethics and culture in banking and finance
Paper Submission Procedure:
Please submit your paper to: cgirard@essex.ac.uk
The submission deadline is December 31, 2021.
About the Review of Corporate Finance (RCF):
RCF is published by Now Publishers. Now publishes papers as Green OA: articles are published under the terms of a non-commercial Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. These terms mean that you own the copyright to your own work, and transfer a license to Now to print the paper in the journal. You can use the work in subsequent material (e.g., develop or reprint it in a book) as long as you cite the original work. It allows you to maintain your work in open access, which is consistent with most granting body requirements.
RCF prints papers in hard and soft copies. The first issue has just been published - online here: https://www.nowpublishers.com/RCF
And the papers forthcoming in the second issue are online here: https://sites.google.com/view/review-of-corporate-finance/forthcoming-papers?authuser=0
Contributors to RCF so far include top scholars such as Franklin Allen and Allen Berger, among others.
RCF considers original empirical and theoretical papers, as well as methodological contributions, survey papers, and shorter commentaries. All topics in corporate finance are welcome, including interdisciplinary topics. In addition to the official page at Now Publishers, the editors maintain a personal journal page https://sites.google.com/view/review-of-corporate-finance/home?authuser=0 which has details on the scope of the journal, editors and associate editors, and associated conferences.