The American Finance Association

For the past 12 months: Median turnaround in 48 days. 91.2% of all decisions made within less than 100 days. More at this link: Editorial Statistics

For the past 12 months: Median turnaround in 49 days. 91.4% of all decisions made within less than 100 days. More at this link: Editorial Statistics

On June 30, 2022, the current JF editorial team will step down after serving two consecutive three-year terms. A new editorial team lead by executive editor Antoinette Schoar will take over on July 1, 2022.   To ensure continuity, the two editorial teams agreed to the following transition policy:  New first-round submissions: Papers that come …

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The ASSA has announced that the 2022 ASSA meeting will be held online — a VIRTUAL 2022 AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting.  As the AFA is a part of the ASSA meetings, we will be joining the virtual meetings to be held on January 7 – 9, 2022. Registration is required in order to participate in the …

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The AFA Board of Directors is excited to announce that Antoinette Schoar of MIT will become the next executive editor of the Journal of Finance, effective July 1, 2022. Dr. Schoar will be joined by co-editors Urban Jermann (Wharton), Leonid Kogan (MIT), Jonathan Lewellen (Dartmouth) and Thomas Philippon (NYU). Dr. Schoar will be the first …

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This year the AFA will again host a PhD Student Poster Session as part of the Annual Meeting. The AFA will also award Travel Grants to doctoral students to help defray the costs of attending our 2022 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts on January 7-9, 2022. Details on both programs are …

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