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Welcome
Welcome to the homepage of The American Finance Association (AFA): the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

 

AFA News:

NEW! Annual Meeting Webcasts

The following four events at the Annual Meeting were webcast. Links to the videos will be posted here as soon as they are available..

January 6 at 10:15 AM AFA Panel on Sovereign Default, Simon Johnson, Chair

January 6 at 2:30 PM AFA Lecture Systemic Risk: Insights from Networks , Daron Acemoglu

January 7 at 5:45 PM AFA Business Meeting, Prize Awards and Presidential Address, Raghuram Rajan

January 8 at 10:15 AM AREUEA/AFA Joint  Panel on Future of Residential Mortgage Securitization, Stuart Gabriel, Chair

2011 Election Results

The 2011 election results are:

President: Sheridan Titman
President-Elect: Robert Stambaugh
Vice President: Luigi Zingales
Directors: Antoinette Schoar, Dimitri Vayanos, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

On behalf of the Association, the President has congratulated the winners and thanked all the candidates for participating in this election.

AFA History Project Videos of 15 interviews and 3 tributes in the AFA Masters of Finance series and 20 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.

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Meetings, Conferences, and Research Support:

NEW! June 18, 2012 - June 20, 2012 4th International IFABS Conference on “Rethinking Banking and Finance: Money, Markets and Models”
Institution: the Universitat de València, the Ivie (Valencian Institute for Economic Research), the Universitat Jaume I and the University of Leicester
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NEW! Special Issue on
Institution: Society for the Study of Emerging Markets
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NEW! July 26, 2012 - July 29, 2012 Summer Research Conference 2012 in Finance
Institution: Indian School of Business
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NEW! March 14, 2012 - March 16, 2012 Academy of Business Research Spring International Conference
Institution: Academy of Business Research
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NEW! June 25, 2012 - June 26, 2012 2nd EJF Special Issue Conference on the Chinese Capital Market
Institution: Durham University, UK
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NEW! June 12, 2012 - June 14, 2012 Euroconference2012
Institution: The Research Institute of Economics and Management of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and The Society for the Study of Emerging Markets
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NEW! June 16, 2012 - June 19, 2012 CONFERENCE: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC- RIM REGION
Institution: The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES), the Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Studies (JACES) and the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM)
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NEW! October 25, 2012 A one-day conference on “Liquidity and Arbitrage Trading”
Institution: Geneva Finance Research Institute, University of Geneva
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NEW! June 25, 2012 Asset Pricing Retreat 2012
Institution: Cass Business School
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NEW! June 28, 2012 - June 29, 2012 29th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance
Institution: C.N.R.S. Research Group GDRE
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NEW! December 26, 2012 - December 27, 2012 International Conference on Advances in Coputational Intelligence for Information Technology and Communications – CIITCom
Institution: ACEEE
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NEW! INAUGURAL ISSUE RELEASED & CALL FOR PAPERS
Institution: Algorithmic Finance
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NEW! May 3, 2012 - May 4, 2012 9th Annual Value Investor Conference - Omaha
Institution: Value Investor Conference
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NEW! April 12, 2012 - April 13, 2012 16th International Business Research Conference
Institution: World Business Institute
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NEW! April 12, 2012 - April 12, 2012 MoBanking Conference2012
Institution: Trifork
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NEW! December 17, 2012 - December 18, 2012 WORLD FINANCE SYMPOSIUM - ASIAN FINANCE & BANKING
Institution: ESCE-IPVC
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NEW! January 26, 2012 - January 27, 2012 4 TH ANNUAL HEDGE FUND RESEARCH CONFERENCE - THE LATEST IN ACADEMIC HEDGE FUND RESEARCH
Institution: CREST
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June 29, 2012 - July 1, 2012 conference
Institution: The Research Institute of Economics and Management of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and The Society for the Study of Emerging Markets
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May 4, 2012 - May 5, 2012 Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference
Institution: University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Managment
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June 24, 2012 - June 27, 2012 19TH Annual Conference
Institution: Multinational Finance Society
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December 3, 2012 Call for Papers: Paul Woolley Centre 5th Annual Conference
Institution: The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality
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May 11, 2012 - May 12, 2012 R/Finance 2012: Applied Finance with R
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
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March 20, 2012 - March 21, 2012 Custody, Clearing & Settlement Asia 2012
Institution: IQPC
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June 7, 2012 - June 8, 2012 Project Manager for External Events and Communications
Institution: ESCP Europe Business School
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February 9, 2012 - February 10, 2012 7th Quantitative Asset & Risk Management Workshop 2012
Institution: Diaman SIM
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September 7, 2012 - September 8, 2012 Yeditepe International Symposium on International Banking and Finance
Institution: Yeditepe University - Management Application and Research Center
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December 3, 2012 Call for papers
Institution: Paul Woolley Centre at the London School of Economics
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August 9, 2012 - August 10, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS
Institution: Banco Central do Brasil
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June 8, 2012 - June 10, 2012 Call for Papers
Institution: National Entrepreneurship Research Center, Tsinghua University
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February 13, 2012 - February 14, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS: Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference
Institution: World Business Institute
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February 20, 2012 - February 21, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Accounting, Finance & Economics Conference
Institution: Australian Research Council for Accounting Finance and Economics
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July 2, 2012 - July 4, 2012 WORLD FINANCE CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
Institution: ESCE-IPVC
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June 28, 2012 - June 30, 2012 9th International Conference on Applied Financial Economics (AFE 2012)
Institution: Research and Training Institute of the East Aegean (INEAG)
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April 26, 2012 - April 27, 2012 FINANCING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FIRMS: FRAUD, ETHICS AND REGULATION
Institution: CFA Institute, Financial Analysts Journal, York University Schulich School of Business
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June 7, 2012 - June 9, 2012 The 2012 SIBR Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research
Institution: Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research & Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University
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June 24, 2012 - June 27, 2012 forecasting research and application
Institution: International Institute of Forecasters
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March 29, 2012 - March 30, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr 2012)
Institution: Credit Suisse
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March 9, 2012 - March 10, 2012 Duke/UNC Asset Pricing Conference 2012
Institution: Duke University - University of North Carolina
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April 12, 2012 - April 14, 2012 4th Annual Florida State University SunTrust Beach Conference
Institution: Florida State University
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February 2, 2012 - February 4, 2012 Perm Winter School
Institution: Perm State University
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July 2, 2012 - July 4, 2012 WORLD FINANCE CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
Institution: ESCE-IPVC
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June 28, 2012 - June 28, 2012 Conference
Institution: European Banking Center - Dutch Central Bank - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking - University of Kansas
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March 30, 2012 - April 1, 2012 Conference
Institution: Risk Theory Society
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Annual Meeting:

The 2013 Annual Meeting will be held January 4-6, 2013 in San Diego with Robert Stambaugh as Program  Chair. Click here to see the Call for Papers.

 

Forthcoming Articles
NEW!   Noisy Prices and Inference Regarding Returns
  Elena Asparouhova, Hendrik Bessembinder, and Ivalina Kalcheva
NEW!   The Supply-Side Determinants of Loan Contract Strictness
  Justin Murfin
NEW!   A Lintner Model of Payout and Managerial Rents
  Bart M. Lambrecht and Stewart C. Myers
NEW!   Agency Problems in Public Firms: Evidence from Corporate Jets in Leveraged Buyouts
  Jesse Edgerton
NEW!   Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing: An Evaluation Using Demographics
  Stefano Dellavigna and Joshua M. Pollet
NEW!   Reverse Survivorship Bias
  Juhani T. Linnainmaa
NEW!   Analyst Forecast Consistency
  Gilles Hilary and Charles Hsu
  Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices
  Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi
  Financial Expertise as an Arms Race
  Vincent Glode, Richard C. Green, and Richard Lowery
  The Case For Intervening in Bankers' Pay
  John Thanassoulis
  Decoding Inside Information
  Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, and Lukasz Pomorski
  Dynamic Competition, Valuation, and Merger Activity
  Matthew Spiegel and Heather Tookes
  The Determinants of Attitudes towards Strategic Default on Mortgages
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
  The Cost of Short-Selling Liquid Securities
  Snehal Banerjee and Jeremy J. Graveline
  Private Equity Performance and Liquidity Risk
  Francesco Franzoni, Eric Nowak, and Ludovic Phalippou
  Regulatory Arbitrage and International Bank Flows
  Joel F. Houston, Chen Lin, and Yue Ma
  The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers
  Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein, and Wei Jiang
  Short-Selling Bans around the World: Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis
  Alessandro Beber and Marco Pagano
  The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value
  Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Gine, and Maria Guadalupe
  Why Are U.S. Stocks More Volatile?
  Söhnke M. Bartram, Gregory Brown, and René M. Stulz

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