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Annette Clark to Depart American Finance Association After Twelve Years of Service

Annette Clark joined the AFA in 2013 and has overseen the Association’s day-to-day operations for more than a decade. In her role, she worked closely with the Program Chair and PhD Session Chair each year to coordinate the AFA Annual Meeting program, helping ensure smooth execution and high-quality programming for thousands of attendees. Over her tenure, she …

Journal of Finance Webinar: 2025 DFA Prize

Join us on July 8 at 12:00 p.m. ET for the 2025 Journal of Finance Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize webinar! This one-hour webinar will feature the First Prize-winning paper, “Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality,”by Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. Hosted by Antoinette Schoar, Editor of the Journal of Finance, and Jacobo Rodríguez of Dimensional Fund Advisors, the webinar will …

AFA PhD Student Poster Session Submissions – NOW OPEN

Please submit your paper/poster by July 31. In 2027, 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 2027 Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 3-5, 2027 in …

Future of Finance Award Winners

The following authors were selected as the inaugural recipients of the AFA Future of Finance Award for their papers listed below which will be presented in a Special Session at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting. The Future of Finance Award and Special Session recognizes those who have written a paper that is both innovative and …