2010 Student Travel Grants  This year the Association will offer up to 120 travel grants of $1,500 each to doctoral students to help defray the costs of attending our Annual Meeting to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, January 3-5, 2010.  Any current AFA member in the U.S. or abroad is invited to nominate one student, whom he or she has taught or supervised, to be considered for this award. Nominations must be made by August 1, 2009. For details on the grants and a nomination form, please click here.. 

2009 Presidential Address A video of the 2009 Presidential Address Sophisticated Investors and Market Efficiency may be viewed by clicking here.

2009 Business Meeting and Prize Awards Videos of the 2009 Business Meeting and the Prize Awards are available on the Annual Meeting page.

Fischer Black Prize The Association is pleased to announce the awarding of the 2009 Fischer Black prize to Harrison Hong of Princeton University.

Education Initiative: Psychology and Personal Finance As noted previously in AFA News, the AFA Board has been examining various initiatives to enhance broad-based financial education. One of those initiatives is Shlomo Benartzi's UCLA course Psychology and Personal Finance. Professor Benartzi has kindly given us permission to provide a link to his course outline and associated documents. To access that link, please click here.

AFA History Project Video interviews with Harry Markowitz, Robert Merton,  Paul Samuelson, Myron Scholes, William Sharpe and Jack Treynor are available on the History of Finance page. 

Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty: The AFA and the Department of Finance at Ohio State University have entered into a joint venture to maintain and enhance the finance faculty directory held on the OSU web site. At present, information on over 3,000 finance professors and professionals is available in the directory. An effort is being made to include all AFA members on this list and members are encouraged to provide information to the directory manager. A link to the directory is available on the homepage or you can go direct to:

http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/findir/

The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held January 3-5, 2010 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in Atlanta, GA with John H. Cochrane as Program Chair. Submissions for 2010 have closed.

NEW! December 7, 2009 - December 9, 2009 Conference
Institution: UPAEP/UCR/EARTH
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NEW! December 16, 2009 - December 18, 2009 The 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference and Special Issue of the Journal of Banking & Finance
Institution: The Australian School of Business
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NEW! September 28, 2009 - September 29, 2009 Annual American Business Research Confernece
Institution: World Business Institute
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NEW! Call for Papers: Afro Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting
Institution: University of Bahrain
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NEW! December 12, 2009 - December 13, 2009 Call for Papers:The 5th International Conference on Asian Financial Markets
Institution: Nagasaki University
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December 17, 2009 - December 18, 2009 Call for Papers: 7th Paris Finance International Meeting
Institution: Eurofidai - AFFI
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September 3, 2009 - September 4, 2009 China Leasing Summit 2009-Vendor Program under
Institution: Duxes
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XVII Finance Forum
Institution: IESE/AEFIN
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December 5, 2009 - December 5, 2009 Call for Papers: Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Institution: Korean Securities Association
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December 12, 2009 - December 13, 2009 Financial Research Association 2009 Meeting
Institution: Financial Research Association
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Call for Papers - IREF Special Issue
Institution: International Review of Economics and Finance
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February 24, 2010 - February 27, 2010 Call for Papers
Institution: Midwest Finance Association
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October 22, 2009 - October 24, 2009 International Conference
Institution: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
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September 16, 2009 - September 16, 2009 One-Day Symposium: Improving Assessment of the Default Risk of Single-Family Mortgages
Institution: Federal Housing Finance Agency/FDIC
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October 1, 2009 - October 2, 2009 Call for Papers: Risk Management Conference
Institution: Loyola University Chicago
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January 13, 2010 - January 14, 2010 Campus for Finance - Research Conference
Institution: Campus for Finance e.V.
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May 31, 2010 - June 6, 2010 6th Conference on Actuarial Finance
Institution: University of the Aegean, Department of Statistics and Actuarial -Financial Mathematics
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December 17, 2009 - December 18, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS: 7TH PARIS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING
Institution: Eurofidai - AFFI
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July 30, 2009 - August 1, 2009 Ninth Brazilian Finance Meeting
Institution: Brazilian Finance Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Finanças)
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August 19, 2009 - August 21, 2009 Call for Papers for annual conference
Institution: International Association for Organizational Innovation
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Call for papers - Currency, credit and capital: Crisis from the Wall Street to main street and beyond
Institution: International Finance Review
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NBER/Sloan Working Group: The Functioning of Financial Firms and the Resolution of their Distress - call for papers
Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
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July 16, 2009 - July 18, 2009 RMI 3rd Annual Research Conference
Institution: NUS Risk Management Institute
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July 4, 2009 - July 6, 2009 International Symposium on Risk Management and Derivatives
Institution: Xiamen University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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June 27, 2009 - July 1, 2009 Call for Papers - 16th Annual Conference
Institution: Multinational Finance Society
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