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Please submit your paper/poster by July 31.

In 2025, 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 2025 Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 3-5, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Students with a paper on the regular program should resubmit that for the AFA PhD Student Poster Session and also notify info@afajof.org in order to be considered for a Travel Grant.

Find additional details on the Annual Meeting page of the AFA website.

Former AFA President (1992) Michael Jensen passed away on April 2, 2024. A prolific scholar, Professor Jensen was also the co-founder of the Journal of Financial Economics. He is best known for his work on agency theory. His seminal paper, Theory of Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was written in 1976 with William H. Meckling while they were both professors at the University of Rochester. Professor Jensen received his undergraduate degree from Macalester College and his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago.  He was a chaired professor at the Harvard Business School until 2000.  A tribute from Eugene Fama can be read here.