NEW! Morgan Stanley Prize for Excellence in Financial Markets Morgan Stanley has established a prize to reward excellence in financial research by doctoral students at 20 participating universities. To apply, students must submit a single-authored finance paper by October 1, 2010. For more information on this prize, click here.

2011 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 Denver, Colorado.  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. Please click on the header above for more details.

AFA History Project Videos of 12 interviews in the AFA Masters of Finance series and 4 videos of lectures on the History of Financial Thought. are available on the History of Finance page. For more information on these interviews and lectures, please click on the header above and scroll down.

NEW! March 2, 2011 - March 5, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Institution: 2011 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MIDWEST FINANCE ASSOCIATION
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NEW! January 7, 2011 - January 8, 2011 International conference on innovation and change for survival and growth
Institution: Management development Institute, India and University of Connecticut, USA
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NEW! April 7, 2011 - April 9, 2011 European Financial Management Conference on Alternative Investments
Institution: York University Schulich School of Business
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NEW! August 22, 2010 Best Paper Competition
Institution: Bogazici University and Istanbul Stock Exchange of Turkey
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NEW! December 14, 2010 PhD Forum as part of the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference
Institution: Australian School of Business
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NEW! January 8, 2011 - January 9, 2011 Call for Papers: The Tenth International Accounting Conference on Global Financial Meltdown & Recovery: Changing Paradigm of Accounting & in collaboration with International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER)
Institution: The Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation (IAARF)
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NEW! January 27, 2011 - January 28, 2011 Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Conference on Hedge Funds - Market intermediaries, financial markets, and the real economy
Institution: CREST-INSEE and HEC Paris
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NEW! July 27, 2010 - September 29, 2010 Annual Hawaii International Business Research Confernece
Institution: World Business Institute
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June 25, 2010 - September 15, 2010 Editorship: Journal of Financial Research
Institution: SFA/SWFA
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Call for Papers: The 5th Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)
Institution: Korean Securities Association
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April 13, 2011 - April 16, 2011 EFA Annual Meeting
Institution: Eastern Finance Association
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June 10, 2011 Research Conference on Financial Networks
Institution: Geneva Finance Research Institute
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December 18, 2010 - December 19, 2010 Conference
Institution: Financial Research Association
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June 1, 2010 - September 30, 2010 Call for Papers: Financial Services Policy Reform
Institution: Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University
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December 11, 2010 - December 12, 2010 The 6th International Conference on Asian Financial Markets
Institution: Graduate School of Economics, Nagasaki University
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October 28, 2010 Call for Papers: Conference on Lifecycle Finance, Insurance and Economics
Institution: The Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID) Centre
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November 12, 2010 Academic Conference
Institution: University of Delaware Lerner College of Business and Economics
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November 11, 2010 - November 13, 2010 International Conference on Financial Sector Reforms and the Indian Economy
Institution: British Northern Universities India Forum(BNUIF) & Indian Institute of Management(Kozhikode)
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April 15, 2011 - April 17, 2011 Risk and Insurance Conference
Institution: University of Guelph
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September 28, 2010 - September 29, 2010 OSC/SEC 2010
Institution: Infonex
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November 27, 2010 - November 28, 2010 First Academic Summit on Valuation and Financial Modeling
Institution: Symbiosis centre for Management and Human Resource Development
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December 19, 2010 - December 20, 2010 Tel Aviv Finance Conference
Institution: Tel Aviv University
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Emerging Capital Markets
Institution: Korean Securities Association
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Best Paper Competition
Institution: Bogazici University and Istanbul Stock Exchange of Turkey
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December 15, 2010 - December 17, 2010 International Research Forum
Institution: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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January 12, 2011 - January 13, 2011 Campus for Finance - Research Conference 2011
Institution: WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
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September 16, 2010 - September 18, 2010 European Journal of Finance / Journal of Business Ethics Joint Special Issue Conference with Michael Jensen Keynote
Institution: York University Schulich School of Business
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May 8, 2010 - August 8, 2010 Summer Research Conference 2010 in Finance
Institution: Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business
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September 23, 2010 - September 24, 2010 Liquidity and Liquidity Risks conference
Institution: Deutsche Bundesbank, EBC, and EBS
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September 3, 2010 Conference on Managerial Compensation
Institution: Cardiff University
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August 30, 2010 - August 31, 2010 Workshop on Microfinance Management and Governance
Institution: Centre for International Banking, Insurance and Finance
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Call for Book Chapter Proposals
Institution: Elon University, Elon, North Carolina
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December 15, 2010 - December 17, 2010 23rd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference
Institution: School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, UNSW
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September 24, 2010 - September 26, 2010 Northern Finance Association Conference
Institution: University of Manitoba
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October 28, 2010 - October 29, 2010 Swissquote Conference on Interest Rate and Credit Risk
Institution: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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October 14, 2010 - October 16, 2010 Symposium on International Corporate Finance and Governance
Institution: University of Twente, The Netherlands
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August 14, 2010 - August 15, 2010 Edwards Symposium on Corporate Governance
Institution: University of Saskatchewan
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Call for Papers
Institution: Journal of Corporate Finance
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July 29, 2010 - July 31, 2010 10th Brazilian Finance Conference
Institution: Fundação Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo
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November 18, 2010 - November 19, 2010 XVIII Finance Forum
Institution: Spanish Finance Association
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June 29, 2010 - July 2, 2010 Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2010 International Conference
Institution: The Asian Finance Association (AsianFA)
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The 2011 Annual Meeting will be held January 7-9, 2011 in Denver, CO with Raghuram Rajan as Program Chair. Submissions closed March 16. The AFA sessions will be held in the Denver Marriott City Center Hotel. After September 14, meeting registration and hotel reservations may be made at the AEA web site, www.vanderbilt.edu/aea. Go to the Annual Meeting page for links to 2011 Annual Program Documents.