The American Finance Association

As announced at the 2025 AFA meetings, Urban Jermann (Wharton) will step down as JF editor on July 1, 2025 and Adi Sunderam (HBS) will be replacing him. Manuscripts submitted before July 1st 2025 that are assigned to Urban will continue to be handled by him.

Please join us on July 16 at 11am Eastern Time for a webinar of the 2024, First Prize, Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize winning paper: Klakow Akepanidtaworn, Rick Di Mascio, Alex Imas, and Lawrence D.W. Schmidt for Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors The webinar will be hosted by Leonid …

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Please submit your paper/poster by July 31. In 2026, the AFA will again plan to host a PhD Student Poster Session. Travel Grants will be provided to PhD students with a paper in the AFA PhD Student Poster Session to defray the costs of attending our 2026 Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 3-5, 2026 in …

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The American Finance Association (AFA) seeks a highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive Part-Time Director of Operations to support the ongoing operations and annual programming of the association. The Director of Operations serves as a key leadership role for the American Finance Association, reporting directly to the Executive Secretary and Treasurer. This part-time position is responsible …

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