NEW! 2009 Election The election of AFA officers and directors for terms beginning after the 2010 Annual Meeting is underway. The candidates are President: John Cochrane, President-Elect: Raghuram Rajan, Vice President )vote ofr 1): Deborah Lucas, Sheridan Titman, Directors (vote for 3): Nicholas Barberis, Markus Brunnermeir, Robert McDonald, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Toni Whited, Josef Zechner. Members are encouraged to vote and may do so using the personalized direct link to the ballot that they should receive in an email. Members may also vote by logging on to this web site and clicking on 2009 Election. Voting closes on December 15, 2009.

AFA History Project Videos of interviews with Kenneth Arrow, Eugene Fama and Fred Weston have been added to those with Harry Markowitz, Robert Merton,  Paul Samuelson, Myron Scholes, William Sharpe and Jack Treynor and are available on History of Finance page. 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.

AEA Continuing Education The AEA will be holding three Continuing Education Programs immediately following the ASSA meetings this year. Each of these programs has some relevance to finance: time-series econometrics, behavioral economics, and financial economics. At this point, the sessions are about half full, which is comparable to last year, when they sold out shortly before the end of registration. The programs are described at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/cont_education.html.

NEW! April 8, 2010 - April 9, 2010 12th International Business Research Confernece
Institution: World Business Institute
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NEW! June 26, 2010 Seventh Annual Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Paper Development Workshop (PDW)
Institution: Sponsored by the Texas A&M and South Carolina CIBERs and the AIB
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NEW! April 23, 2010 - April 24, 2010 International Workshop on Financial Constraints, Firms and Aggregate Dynamics
Institution: OFCE - DRIC
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NEW! 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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NEW! March 12, 2010 - March 13, 2010 3rd DUKE-UNC ASSET PRICING CONFERENCE
Institution: Duke, UNC
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NEW! 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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NEW! August 5, 2010 - August 6, 2010 Academic research conference
Institution: University of Oregon
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NEW! April 30, 2010 Adam Smith Asset Pricing Workshop Call for Papers
Institution: University of Oxford
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NEW! January 1, 2010 - January 2, 2010 Annual Asian Business Research Confernece
Institution: World Business Institute
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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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UBC Winter Finance Conference 2010
Institution: University of British Columbia
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April 8, 2010 - April 10, 2010 SunTrust- FSU Spring Beach Conference
Institution: Florida State University
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March 18, 2010 - March 19, 2010 9th Annual Darden International Finance Conference
Institution: Darden Business School, University of Virginia
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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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March 15, 2010 - March 17, 2010 3rd SWISS WINTER CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
Institution: Tilburg University -- European Banking Center
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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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April 22, 2010 - April 24, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS:EFM 2010 Symposium on ASIAN FINANCE
Institution: Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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May 26, 2010 - May 28, 2010 1st World Finance Conference
Institution: ESCE.IPVC
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November 30, 2009 - December 2, 2009 2009 Strategies and Risk Analysis International Conference
Institution: Institute of Strategies and Analysis of Risk (ISTAR), NIDA Business School, Bangkok Thailand & Center for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Application (CARISMA), Brunel University, London UK
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August 1, 2009 - January 31, 2010 REDESIGN Retirement System
Institution: the iOme Challenge
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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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June 10, 2010 - June 11, 2010 Call for papers - ESSEC Private Equity Second Annual Conference
Institution: ESSEC Business School
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January 28, 2010 - January 29, 2010 Conference on Hedge Funds
Institution: SGAM AI and CREST
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December 7, 2009 - December 9, 2009 Conference
Institution: UPAEP/UCR/EARTH
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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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Call for Papers: Afro Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting
Institution: University of Bahrain
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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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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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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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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. The AFA sessions will be held in the Atlanta Hilton Hotel. To view the 2010 AFA Program, click here. Links to the sites for meeting and hotel registration are available at the ASSA site .