ARIA listserv announcements #38 - week of September 3, 2007
American Risk & Insurance Association
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Greetings ARIA members: Today’s listserv contains the following:
- Midwest Finance Association 2008 Call for Papers
- ARIA Board requesting members’ suggestions/ideas for new logo
Midwest Finance Association 2008 Call for Papers Colleagues, On behalf of the Midwest Finance Association, your participation in our 57th annual meeting on 27 February -1 March 2008, at the Marriott River Center, San Antonio, Texas is welcomed. We are requesting papers and developed abstracts in any field in finance broadly defined. We also welcome the submission of practitioner and /or pedagogical papers and your ideas for interesting panel sessions. In conjunction with our journal partners, there will be Special Issues of Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Financial Services Research, Review of Futures Markets, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship and Research in International Business and Finance, for papers presented at the meeting.
Online Paper Submission Deadline: 15 September 2007
Key Panel Sessions:Our institutional partners New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Professional Risk Management Association Group, Moody's, Equipment Finance Leasing Association, BATS (Kansas City Electronic Stock Exchange), will sponsor and host panel sessions on topics that include
· Financial Exchange Consolidation and Competition · Market Volatility and Risk Management · Leasing and Research Funding Opportunities
PhD Student Development/Support:We are offering (i) a 50% discount on the conference registration fee and (ii) a reduced Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (QREF) subscription rate of $25 to all PhD students who attend the conference. The regular subscription rate to the QREF is $103. In addition, we will offer support (hotel and/or airfare expense primarily) to a number of PhD students who might need assistance to travel to the conference to present their papers. Students requesting support are simply asked to write to the Program Chair, Lloyd Blenman, together with a letter from their adviser, by January 15, 2008, confirming their student status. All development awards will be handed out in person on Saturday March 1, 2008 at the James A Gentry Breakfast.
Best Paper Awards:The MFA Awards Committee will offer Best Paper Prizes in the areas of (1) Corporate Finance (2) Fixed-Income (3) Investments (4) Asset Pricing Theory and Risk Measures (5) Market Microstructure (6) Derivatives (7) Banking and Financial Institutions (8) International Finance (9) Financial Planning, Insurance and Education. Please note that these awards will be made only if, in the opinion of the MFA Awards Committee, a paper in the track warrants such a decision. The decisions of the MFA Awards Committee will be final.
Cases:We also welcome the participation of the Journal of Finance Case Research (JFCR) at our conference. JFCR are handling the submission and evaluation of cases directly. Members and friends interested in submitting cases and developed case abstracts should contact Timothy Michael, michael@uhcl.edu , for further details. If you are participating in any cases presented at the 2008 MFA program, under the auspices of JFCR, you will have to be registered as a conference participant on the program website, www.mfa-2008.com . Please check the attached files and our conference website, MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "unccmail.uncc.edu" claiming to be www.mfa-2008.com for many more details. The deadline for Paper/Abstract Submission, in PDF Format only, is 15 September 2007. We welcome your involvement as paper presenter, discussant and/or as a member of the program committee. To sign up for participation at our conference, in any form, you need to create an account on the conference website, by clicking on the volunteer button and using the conference code, MFA2008P. We look forward to welcoming you to our meeting in beautiful San Antonio, where we have planned a rich and exciting program.
Redesign of ARIA logo Colleagues,ARIA’s Board is preparing to redesign our logo. Since the logo represents all of us, the membership is asked to participate in the design process by offering input concerning various elements of the logo. Factors to consider in suggesting a redesigned logo are:
- Display of the logo, vertical or horizontal Font Identification, full name or just ARIA’s initials Year of our founding, 1932
- Symbols, such as the lamp of learning, textbooks, etc.
Our goal is to display the new logo and to present a new front cover on the March 2008 edition of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. March is not far off when considering the work to be done. Please contribute your thoughts no later than Thursday, September 13. Please send your suggestions and comments to aria@cpcuiia.org. Thank you in advance for your participation.
