International Corporate Finance Special Issue

Review of Corporate Finance (RCF)

Call for Papers: Special Issue on International Corporate Finance

International corporate finance is a rapidly evolving field that encompasses the financial and investment strategies of multinational companies in a global context. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic upheaval on a global scale, leading to increased uncertainty and geopolitical risks that necessitate adaptive financial and investment strategies. Multinational companies are facing a post-COVID world that is characterized by high inflation and uncertainty, making international corporate finance all the more vital. The current trends in international corporate finance include the acceleration of digitalization, as companies have adopted remote work and digital technologies to bridge geographical and cultural divides in their operations. There is also an increased focus on sustainability and climate change, as the pandemic has highlighted the importance of environmental and social factors in business operations. Additionally, companies are prioritizing liquidity and financial resilience over growth under the current business environments. They also actively seek to raise capital from non-traditional sources of financing and markets. Finally, with supply chain disruptions and geopolitical risks, multinational companies are re-evaluating their global operations and supply chains. This special issue invites submissions that address topics related to

·       cross-border mergers and acquisitions

·       foreign direct investment and corporate governance

·       international capital structure and financing decisions

·       corporate social responsibility in global markets

·       supply chain finance

·       climate finance in global markets

·       global financial regulation

·       corporate restructuring and bankruptcy in a global context

·       capital raisings and debt financing in international financial markets

·       international sustainability finance

·       other related topics

We welcome both empirical and theoretical papers that make significant contributions to the literature on international corporate finance, with submissions from diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives strongly encouraged. All manuscripts must be original and unpublished works that are not under review by any other journal. We will subject all submissions to a rigorous double-blind peer review process.

Submission Guidelines:

Deadline for submission: 31 August, 2023

Manuscripts should be submitted directly to Prof. Eliza Wu at eliza.wu@sydney.edu.au.

Manuscripts must adhere to the guidelines of Review of Corporate Finance (RCF), which can be found on the journal's website https://www.nowpublishers.com/Journal/AuthorInstructions/RCF. Please indicate that your manuscript is submitted for the special issue on International Corporate Finance. 

About the Review of Corporate Finance (RCF):

RCF offers a $1000 best paper award each year.  The winning papers in 2021 and 2022 were:

·       Allen, Franklin, Xian Gu, & Julapa Jagtiani, 2021. "A Survey of Fintech Research and Policy Discussion" Review of Corporate Finance 1 (3-4), 259-339.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/114.00000007.     

·       Anderson, Ronald, Masud Karim, Nan Li, & David M. Reeb, 2022. "The Family Firm Ownership Puzzle" Review of Corporate Finance 2(4), 679-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/114.00000027.

There is no submission fee. RCF is published by Now Publishers (https://www.nowpublishers.com/RCF).  Authors of accepted papers of Now Publications keep copyright, and merely license to Now the commercial rights; authors are free to publish their work in any derivative form including abridgments or expansion into a book (providing that complete acknowledgment is given to the original source of the publication).  Now publishes in electronic and print formats and provides the authors with PDF for their own use as well as for self-archiving at their own institutions.

Please note that at the end of 2022, RCF’s Google Scholar citations-per-published-article was already 11.13.

RCF features highly-cited authors (with 6,000-96,000+ citations), including Franklin Allen, Renee Adams, Allen Berger, David Reeb, Ronald Anderson, Thomas Chemmanur, John Doukas, Omrane Guedhami, Sadok El Ghoul, Tim Jenkinson, Narjess Boubakri, Barbara Casu, James Chrisman, Richard Smith, Janet Kiholm-Smith, among over 100 authors worldwide from Australia, New Zealand, China, Norway, Germany, UK, Canada, U.S., France, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Cyprus, Switzerland, UAE, Pakistan, Singapore, Turkey, and Luxembourg.

Guest Editors:

Eliza Wu, University of Sydney; eliza.wu@sydney.edu.au

Peter Pham, University of Sydney; peter.pham@sydney.edu.au

Buhui Qiu, University of Sydney; buhui.qiu@sydney.edu.au