ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Published date: 01 June 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12907
• Date: 01 June 2020

THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE •VOL. LXXV, NO. 3 •JUNE 2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AFA Student Travel Grant Nominations and PhD Student Poster Ses-

sion Submissions: 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 PhD students to help defray the costs of attending our 2021 Annual Meeting,

which will be held in Chicago, Illinois. NOTE: These programs are adminis-

tered separately and eligibility requirements are slightly different for each

program. Please watch the AFA website (www.afajof.org) and your email for

more details.

Travel Grants: Any current AFA member in the United States or abroad is

invited to nominate one student, whom he or she has taught or supervised, to

be considered for this award. The student must be a member of the Association

(student online memberships are available free at www.afajof.org); must be be-

yond the first year in her or his doctoral studies in finance, financial economics,

or a related field; and must not be on the job market during the academic

year in which the grant is made. No student may participate in this grant pro-

gram more than once. Awards will be determined based on recommendations

and the award amount will factor travel cost to the Annual Meeting from the

student’s institution as well as the number of nominations from the student’s

school.

PhD Student Poster Session Submissions: Poster submissions are in-

vited on all topics in finance and may describe research projects, results of

work in progress, presentation of data, or recently completed work. The stu-

dent/submitter must be a member of the Association (student online mem-

berships are available free at www.afajof.org). Submissions can be made for

the Poster Session through the Conference Maker website in early summer.

Submissions should include your poster title and abstract as well as a draft

of your poster or paper on which the poster would be based. The posters will

be displayed in a public area of the AFA hotel and authors will be asked to be

present at their posters for specific times during the conference.

AFA Financial and Board Meeting Summaries: The AFA Board of Direc-

tors has voted to publish a Board Meeting Summary to increase transparency

of AFA governance and decisions made by the Board. Recent Board Meeting

Summaries as well as AFA Financial Statements are posted on the AFA website

C2020 the American Finance Association

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