The AFA Board of Directors has approved a new award for researchers who completed their PhD no more than 6 years ago. The Future of Finance Award and Special Session will recognize those who have written a paper that is both innovative and creative, and that challenges existing approaches in financial economics. These criteria include novel methodology (including theory and econometrics) and interdisciplinary approaches.
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 (the paper submission deadline is March 16). The submitting author must indicate the PhD year for all authors on the paper. If any author received their PhD more than 6 years prior, the paper is ineligible for consideration.
Up to four papers will be selected and featured in a special “Future of Finance” Session at the AFA Annual Meeting. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to submit their paper to the Journal of Finance with the guarantee that the paper will not be desk-rejected. If the paper is published in the Journal of Finance, it will automatically be entered in the short-list of papers considered for the Rick Green prize (conditional on meeting all prize requirements).
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.