NEW! AFA Internet Director As announced at the 2010 Annual Meeting, the AFA is planning to enhance the Association's internet presence. To make this happen. the Association wants to appoint an Internet Director who will take the leadership role in making this happen in an effective, interesting, and useful way. For more information on this position please click on the header above. If you have an interest in this position or know of someone who might have, please contact John Cochrane at john.cochrane@chicagobooth.edu and mention "internet editor" in the subject line.

NEW! Nominating and Fischer Black Prize Committees At their 2010 Meeting, the AFA Board approved the following membership for the 2011 Nominating Committee: Raghuram Rajan (chair), Seridan Titman, Joshua Rauh, Monika Piazzesi, Tobias Moskowitz, Francesca Cornelli, Manju Puri, Sudipto Dasgupta, Ulf Axelson, Danny Wolfenzon, Chris Malloy and Murray Carlson. The Board also approved the following membership for the 2011 Fischer Black Prize Committee: Darrell Duffie (chair), Robert McDonald, Dimitri Vayanos, Laura Starks, and Luigi Zingales.

Michael C. Jensen wins the 2009 Award for Excellence in Financial Economics.

The AFA and Morgan Stanley announce Michael C. Jensen as Recipient of the 2009 Award for Excellence in Financial Economics. Professor Jensen has selected the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School and the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester  as recipients of the $200,000 cash grant. For further details, click here.

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! May 14, 2010 - May 16, 2010 University of Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference
Institution: University of Minnesota
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NEW! September 24, 2010 - September 26, 2010 Northern Finance Association Conference
Institution: University of Manitoba
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NEW! 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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NEW! October 14, 2010 - October 16, 2010 Symposium on International Corporate Finance and Governance
Institution: University of Twente, The Netherlands
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NEW! July 2, 2010 - July 4, 2010 EWG-EPA 2010 Conference -Global trends in the Efficiency and Risk Management of Financial Services
Institution: EURO Working Group on Efficiency & Productivity Analysis
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NEW! Call for Papers - 2010 IFID Centre Student Paper Competition
Institution: The Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions Centre
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NEW! June 23, 2010 - June 26, 2010 Real Estate Conference
Institution: ERES & SDA Bocconi
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July 1, 2010 - July 3, 2010 6th Portuguese Finance Network 2010 Conference
Institution: University of the Azores
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August 14, 2010 - August 15, 2010 Edwards Symposium on Corporate Governance
Institution: University of Saskatchewan
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June 14, 2010 - June 15, 2010 Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference
Institution: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Society for Financial Studies
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June 21, 2010 - June 23, 2010 The 8th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance and Accounting(IEFA)
Institution: National Taiwan University’s Center for the Study of Banking and Finance (NTU-CSBF), Banking Education Association of Taiwan (BEAT) and Taiwan Hakka Forum of Association (THFA)
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Call for Papers
Institution: Journal of Corporate Finance
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March 27, 2010 - March 28, 2010 Behavioural Finance Conference
Institution: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario CANADA
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June 10, 2010 - June 12, 2010 Conference
Institution: World Business Institute
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December 15, 2009 - June 30, 2010 SPECIAL ISSUE ON BEHAVIORAL FINANCE
Institution: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
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May 14, 2010 - May 16, 2010 University of Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference
Institution: University of Minnesota
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April 16, 2010 - April 17, 2010 2nd R/Finance Conference
Institution: International Center for Futures and Derivatives
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June 10, 2010 - June 11, 2010 Third Annual Paul Woolley Centre Conference
Institution: London School of Economics
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July 29, 2010 - July 31, 2010 10th Brazilian Finance Conference
Institution: Fundação Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo
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April 7, 2010 - September 4, 2010 Finance and Corporate Governance Conference
Institution: Latrrobe University
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April 19, 2010 Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk Conference
Institution: Cass Business School & Capco Institute
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November 18, 2010 - November 19, 2010 XVIII Finance Forum
Institution: Spanish Finance Association
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May 28, 2010 Conference on Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam
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April 8, 2010 - April 9, 2010 12th International Business Research Confernece
Institution: World Business Institute
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April 23, 2010 - April 24, 2010 International Workshop on Financial Constraints, Firms and Aggregate Dynamics
Institution: OFCE - DRIC
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May 17, 2010 - May 19, 2010 Call for Papers: ZAFIN2010 XI International Scientific Conference in the series of Financial Management in Firms ‐ Theory and Practice
Institution: Wroclaw University of Economics
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March 12, 2010 - March 13, 2010 3rd DUKE-UNC ASSET PRICING CONFERENCE
Institution: Duke, UNC
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June 8, 2010 - June 10, 2010 12th Malaysian Finance Association Conference
Institution: Taylor's University College, Taylor’s School of Business
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August 5, 2010 - August 6, 2010 Academic research conference
Institution: University of Oregon
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Availability of Loan Performance Data
Institution: IP Recovery, Inc
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International Conference on Financial Markets in China
Institution: University of Missour-St. Louis
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May 11, 2010 - May 12, 2010 27th Spring Conference of the French Finance Association
Institution: University of Rennes 1's Graduate School of Business Administration & ESC Rennes School of Business
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April 15, 2010 - April 17, 2010 EFM Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
Institution: CIRANO Montreal, CMBOR Nottingham University Business School, and Schulich School of Business
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June 3, 2010 - June 4, 2010 Financial Stability Conference 2010: Call for Papers
Institution: Tilburg University
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May 27, 2010 - May 28, 2010 Second Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference
Institution: HEC Paris and U. Paris-Dauphine
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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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May 26, 2010 - May 28, 2010 1st World Finance Conference
Institution: ESCE.IPVC
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July 1, 2010 - July 3, 2010 7th AFE Conference
Institution: RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE OF EAST AEGEAN
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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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The 2011 Annual Meeting will be held January 7-9, 2011 in Denver, CO with Raghuram Rajan as Program Chair. Submissions begin January 15 and close March 16. Click here to view the Call for Papers. For a link to the submission site at SSRN, click here,