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 below and on the Annual Meeting page of the AFA website.
Updates to AFA Membership Database
We moved to a new membership management system on 4/6/2021. If this is your first time logging in since then, you will need to reset your password in order to log in.
If you have any issues accessing your membership, please contact membership@afajof.org.
AFA Annual Meeting 2022 Paper Submissions -NOW CLOSED
The AFA Annual Meeting Paper Submission Website is now closed. The submission deadline was Monday, March 15th at 3:00pm EST.
Although 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).
NOTE: AFA Membership status will be verified at the time of paper submission. Please see additional information on the Annual Meeting page of this website.
James Poterba is Selected as New AFA Fellow
Congratulations to James Poterba for his selection as 2021 AFA Fellow. Dr. Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as President of the Eastern Economic Association and the National Tax Association, as vice president of the American Economic Association, and as a director of the AFA.
Dr. Poterba’s research focuses on how taxation affects the economic decisions of households and firms, particularly those involving saving and portfolio behavior. His recent research has analyzed the determinants of retirement saving, the draw-down of assets after households reach retirement, and the role of tax-deferred retirement saving programs such as 401(k) plans in contributing to retirement security.
Dr. Poterba is a trustee of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), the TIAA-CREF mutual funds, and of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a former editor of the Journal of Public Economics, a co-author of The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement (2001), and an editor or coeditor of Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses (1991), International Comparisons of Household Saving (1994), Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation (1996), Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance (1999), Fiscal Reform in Colombia (2005), and Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment (forthcoming). Dr. Poterba served as a member of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform in 2005. Dr. Poterba holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a D. Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, a Batterymarch Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2014 he received the Daniel M. Holland Medal from the National Tax Association for the study and practice of public finance.
AFA 2020 Election Results
Congratulations to the officers and directors elected in the AFA 2020 election:
- President: John Graham,
- President Elect and 2022 Program Chair: Laura Starks,
- Vice President: Markus Brunnermeier,
- Directors: Victoria Ivashina, Andrew Karolyi, Laura Veldkamp