AFA News

• 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.
  
  
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• 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.
  The student must be a student member of the Association (student on line memberships are available free at http://www.afajof.org/membership/join.asp), must be beyond the first year in her or his doctoral studies in finance, financial economics, or a related field; and must not be on the job market during the academic year in which the grant is made.  Nominations may be made for students living in or near the meeting site, but the award for such students will be limited to the meeting registration fee.  No student may participate in this grant program more than once. A nomination may be made by August 1, 2010 by filling out the form that may be obtained by clicking here.  The students to receive grants will be selected and announced by the Vice President by mid-September, 2010.  The selections will be based on recommendations as well as the distribution of past and present awards among the accredited programs. Award checks will be mailed to the selected students following their attendance at the annual meeting and the completion of a tax form at the annual meeting.
  
  
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• 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.
  Videos of interviews with Robert Engle, Stephen Ross and Richard Roll have been added to those with Harry Markowitz, Robert Merton,  Paul Samuelson, Myron Scholes, William Sharpe.Jack Treynor, Kenneth Arrow, Eugene Fama and Fred Weston. Also, the AFA and the Finance Department at the Fisher College of Business, OSU have cooperated in producing a series of lectures on the History of Financial Thought. Currently available videos include Perry Mehrling on Fischer Black, Stewart Myers on Corporate Finance in the 1970's, Maureen O'Hara on Market Microstructure and Mark Rubinstein on Great Moments in Financial Economics: The Hidden History. All these videos are available on the History of Finance page.
  
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