The 3rd Annual Meeting of the OTEFA will take place on January 6, 2012 in Chicago. Click here for details.

Thammasat University will host the Conference on Families, Networks and Firms, on December 20-21, 2009.

The conference is co-organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Copenhagen Business School, INSEAD, Hitotsubashi University and the University of Alberta. The co-sponsors are the Stock Exchange of Thailand, the Bank of Thailand and Siam Commercial Bank.

The program is available at: http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/knaknoi/otefa/ThammasatConf-Dec2009.pdf

If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to Kulpatra Sirodom at: ksirodom@gmail.com

Time: January 4, 2010, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Venue: Spoon Atlanta, 768 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30318. (404) 522-5655 (Map: http://www.spoonatlanta.com/map.html)

Agenda:

1. Reviewing the bylaws draft
2. Voting for the governance structure
3. Nominating candidates for President and Vice president
4. Electing President and Vice President
5. Proposing new activities

Please RSVP by December 28, 2009 at: otefamail@gmail.com

Students and scholars in finance are invited to participate in the 59th annual meeting of the Midwest Finance Association (MFA) from March 24-27, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Papers and developed abstracts, in all areas of finance, will be considered. Applicants are also welcome to volunteer to participate as discussants, session chairs, reviewers and members of the program committee. Doctoral students receive 50% program registration discount, MFA membership and a friendly atmosphere for the rigorous exchange of ideas. The MFA also offers 15 travel support grants of $500 each on a competitive basis to doctoral students world-wide. More details on these travel grants and sessions for new PhDs will be provided later.

The submission deadline is September 15, 2009. Submitted papers will be reviewed anonymously and authors will be notified of the Program Committee’s decision no later than November 15, 2009.

For more information, visit the conference website: http://www.mfa-2010.com

The Bank of Thailand will host its Graduate Research Conference during June 18-19, 2009. Interested master and Ph.D. students are invited to submit research papers in the following fields to graduate@bot.or.th by May 10, 2009: macroeconomics, financial economics, banking and finance

More information is available at: http://www.bot.or.th/Thai/EconomicConditions/Semina/Pages/scholarship.aspx