ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Published date: 01 June 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12298
• Date: 01 June 2015

THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE •VOL. LXX, NO. 3 •JUNE 2015

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2015 AFA Board Meeting Summary: The AFA Board of Directors has voted

to publish a Board Meeting Summary to increase transparency of AFA gover-

nance and decisions made by the Board. The Board Meeting Summary from

January 3, 2015 is now available on the AFA website (www.afajof.org). We

hope that this additional communication is informative and we welcome your

feedback.

The Journal of Finance Announces Search for New Editor: The current

contract of the JF editorial team expires in June 2016. We regret to inform

you that the editorial team has decided not to seek a renewal. The JF has

been extremely fortunate to have had Ken Singleton, Bruno Biais and Michael

Roberts as editors. We thank the JF editorial team for all their hard work. The

AFA Board is beginning the search process for a new editor. If you would like to

make a nomination, please send the information to Jim Schallheim, Executive

Secretary and Treasurer, at jim.schallheim@business.utah.edu.

AFA Student Travel Grant Nomination: This year the Association will

again award travel grants to doctoral students to help defray the costs of at-

tending our Annual Meeting. Any current AFA member in the U.S. 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 student member of the Associ-

ation (student on line memberships are available free at http://www.afajof.org/

view/join01.html), must be beyond 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 program more than once. The selections will be based

on recommendations, as well as the distribution of past and present awards

among the accredited programs. Please watch the AFAwebsite (www.afajof.org)

and your email for more details (nomination submission date to be announced

soon).

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 he

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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