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The 2027 AFA Annual Meeting will be held January 3-5, 2027 (Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.
On this page you will find information on the following:
- New for 2027: AFA Future of Finance Award and Special Session
- General Paper Submission Information for the Regular Program: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN THRU MARCH 16
- AFA PhD Student Poster Session
- FAQs for AFA Annual Meeting Paper Submissions
AFA Future of Finance Award and Special Session
The 2027 Annual Meeting will include a Future of Finance Award and Special Session highlighting research by early-career scholars who earned their PhD within the past six years. Papers considered for the award will be both innovative and creative, and challenge existing approaches in financial economics. Up to four papers will be selected. To be considered for the award, authors must submit their papers for the AFA Annual Meeting and indicate in the submission form that they would like to be considered for this award.
- Papers must be submitted for the AFA Annual Meeting
- At the time of submission:
- Select “Yes” in the submission form when answering the question “Would you like your paper to be considered for the new “Future of Finance” award and session?”
- List the PhD years for all authors on the paper in the space provided in the submission form.
- Include a brief explanation in the space provided in the submission form for why the paper is novel and goes beyond or challenges existing approaches. For example: What blind spot in current literature does the paper address, or what mainstream approaches does the paper argue for changing?
- Papers to be considered should be both innovative and creative, and challenge existing approaches in financial economics.
- Up to 4 papers will be selected.
- Papers are ineligible if any author earned their PhD more than six years ago as of the time of submission.
- Senior researchers should consider sharing the invitation to submit a paper for consideration with promising junior researchers in finance as well as economists who are doing finance research.
General Paper Submission Information for the Regular Program
The AFA paper submission site for the 2027 American Finance Association Annual Meeting is NOW OPEN. Submit your paper here or navigate to the Membership page on the AFA website and click the “Submit a Paper” button. The deadline to submit a paper is Monday, March 16th at 3:00pm Eastern Time.
Papers are submitted through the AFA website. While there is no paper submission fee, please note that (1) the submitting author must be an AFA member for the paper to be considered and (2) each individual may only submit one paper (although they can be a coauthor on other submitted papers).
AFA Membership Information: You will need to log in to the AFA Membership website in order to submit a paper. Therefore, please complete the following well in advance of the submission deadline:
- Log in to the AFA website. Sign in at the top right.
- Confirm your AFA membership status. After logging in to the AFA website, navigate to My Profile. Your membership type will be listed directly below your name. NOTE: If your membership indicates “Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty” or has an expiration date of “NA”, you might not have an active AFA membership but are part of the Finance Faculty database. Please purchase a regular AFA membership or contact the Membership Services team for assistance.
- Students membership are available for a lower fee, but these memberships can take up to 24 hours to become active. If you plan to register as a student member of the AFA, please be sure to register at least one business day prior to submission of your paper.
- Update your AFA profile. Please review and complete your AFA profile at this time.
Please contact the Membership Services team if you have any problems accessing your membership or profile information. If you have problems or questions related to paper submissions, please contact info@afajof.org for assistance.
AFA PhD Student Poster Session Information
The AFA will again host a PhD Student Poster Session in 2027. Submissions can be made starting in mid-June.
- Students may re-submit work that was not accepted into a regular session for consideration for the AFA PhD Student Poster Session.
- Travel Grants will be provided to PhD students with a paper in the AFA PhD Student Poster Session.
- The PhD Student/submitter must be a member of the AFA (discounted memberships are available for PhD Students).
FAQs for AFA Annual Meeting Paper Submissions
NEW: For papers with mixed Ph.D. student and faculty author teams, at least one faculty author is expected to attend the meeting if the paper is accepted.
NEW: To be considered for the Future of Finance Award and Special Session, please ensure your paper is eligible and then complete the additional information at the bottom of the paper submission form.
The AFA Annual Meeting paper submission process is entirely separate from the Journal of Finance paper submission process.
Please include the name and email for each author on the paper that is submitted.
Please follow Title Case guidelines for capitalization of your paper title.
All papers must be accompanied by an abstract of at least 200 words, but no more than 1,000 words.
All papers must be submitted as PDF files.
Complete papers will be given preference, but extended abstracts of several pages may also be submitted.
Submitted papers should not have been accepted for publication.
The author submitting the paper to the Annual Meeting must be a member of the American Finance Association for the paper to be considered.
Each individual may only submit one paper (although they can be a co-author on other submitted papers).
To enable wider participation, please submit only one paper and do not submit the same paper to other associations that meet at the same time as the AFA/ASSA.
NOTE: Papers may only be presented once during the ASSA meetings – authors of papers accepted for presentation by more than one association will need to select one session in which to present their paper and withdraw the paper from other sessions.
Last revised: February 24, 2026