Annual Meeting
An annual meeting of the association is held every year in January, in conjunction the American Economic Association and the North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society as a part of the Allied Social Sciences Association. The president speaks on a selected topic and there are presentations of various financial papers. The AFA and the Western Finance Association Meetings are considered to be the two top general finance conferences in the world.
Recent Annual Meeting AFA sites:
2003 Washington, D.C.
2004 San Diego, California
2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Chicago, Illinois.
2008 New Orleans, Louisiana
2009 San Francisco, California
2010 Atlanta, Georgia
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