ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Published date: 01 August 2016
• Date: 01 August 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12427

THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE •VOL. LXXI, NO. 4 •AUGUST 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The AFA 2017 Annual Meeting will be held January 6–8, 2017 (Friday,

Saturday & Sunday) in Chicago, Illinois: ASSA Headquarters will be the

Hyatt Regency Chicago and the co-headquarters hotel will be the Sheraton

Grand Chicago Hotel & Towers. Registration and Housing information will

be available on the AEA website in mid-August and other meeting informa-

tion is available now at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/. Attendees must

go through the official housing company to get the convention rates.

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

(www.afajof.org). We hope that this additional communication is informative

and we welcome your feedback.

AFA Annual Meeting Programs: AFA Annual Meeting Programs since 1950

are included in the set of all ASSA Programs available at the American Eco-

nomics Association website (http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual Meeting/assa pro-

grams/). Digitizing of the older programs was a joint effort of the AFA and the

AEA.

Other Announcements

Please go to our website, www.afajof.org, for announcements regarding AFA

news, meetings, conferences, and research support.

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