The 2020 AFA elections are currently underway. All regular members of the AFA were sent an email with a link to candidate bios and a ballot. If you did not receive your ballot, please email Noelle MacDonald at nmacdonald@wiley.com. Note: Student Members and Worldwide Directory of Finance members without a paid membership are not eligible to vote.
AFA 2021 Annual Meetings will be VIRTUAL
The ASSA has announced that the 2021 ASSA meeting will be held online — a VIRTUAL 2021 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 3 – 5, 2021. You can find more details at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/.
Please also see the Annual Meeting page for updates.
Travel Grant Nominations and Ph.D. Student Poster Session Submissions – UPDATE
This year the AFA will again host a Ph.D. Student Poster Session as part of the Annual Meeting.
The Travel Grant program has been suspended for the 2021 Annual Meeting although the AFA is hosting a panel event for Ph.D. students similar to that typically provided to the Travel Grant recipients.
The 2021 Annual Meeting, will be held on-line on January 3-5, 2021. Details can be found on the Annual Meeting page of the AFA website.
Thank you for your patience in these difficult COVID-19 times and please stay safe.
Conference on the Financial Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Journal of Finance and the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business are organizing a conference on the financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will be held by videoconference in five daily two-hour sessions from October 12 to 16, 2020.
In early March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Not only has it resulted in a global public health crisis, but it has also had very large negative impact on economic activity. In response, governments around the world have taken various steps to mitigate the adverse health and economic effects.
The goal of this conference is to bring together economists from academia and policy-making institutions to discuss research papers that shed light on the economic effects of the pandemic on corporate, household, financial, and government sectors and on the policy responses to the crisis. All editors of the Journal of Finance will be present at the conference.
Paper Submission
Manuscripts may be submitted no later than September 15, 2020, Noon CDT. To submit a paper, please click here
A committee of the editors (Philip Bond, Stefan Nagel, Amit Seru and Wei Xiong) and associate editors of the Journal of Finance will select the conference papers from the submissions. The results of the selection process will be announced by the end of September 2020. The online nature of the conference allows for a tight window between submissions, selection, and conference, which should allow the conference to include the most timely research on the topic.
Virtual Conferences and Events Calendar
A new Events Calendar is available for posting Virtual Conferences and other events. There is no cost to post your Call for Papers, Conference, Workshop, or Seminar. Submit your event here.