Midwest Finance Association (MFA)

About

The Mid­west Finance Asso­ci­a­tion (MFA) is ded­i­cated to devel­op­ing and dis­sem­i­nat­ing infor­ma­tion on the finance dis­ci­pline to mem­bers and other inter­ested indi­vid­u­als through annual pro­fes­sional meetings.

Board of Direc­tors 2013 – 2014

Chair of the Advi­sory Board Eli­jah Brewer III, DePaul University

• Pres­i­dent: Iraj Fooladi – Dal­housie University
• President-​Elect: Jean Hel­wege – Uni­ver­sity of South Carolina
• First Vice-​President (Pro­gram Chair): Lau­rence Booth – Uni­ver­sity of Toronto
• Sec­ond Vice-​President: Tom Nohel – Loy­ola University
• Exec­u­tive Direc­tor: Bev­erly Frickel – Uni­ver­sity of Nebraska-​Kearney
• Vice Pres­i­dent of Mem­ber­ship: Seyed Mehdian – Uni­ver­sity of Michigan-​Flint
• Aca­d­e­mic Direc­tors: Ramon DeGen­naro – Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee, John Wald – Uni­ver­sity of Texas at San Anto­nio, Jon Garfinkel – Uni­ver­sity of Iowa, Ann Sher­man – DePaul Uni­ver­sity, Robert Chirinko – Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois at Chicago, Bon­nie Van Ness – Uni­ver­sity of Mississippi
• Insti­tu­tional Direc­tors: Wendy Pirie – CFA Insti­tute, Michael Sebas­t­ian, Hewitt Ennis Knupp, Dou­glas Evanoff – Fed­eral Reserve Bank of Chicago

Quar­terly Jour­nal of Finance

Intro­duced by the MFA in 2011, the Quar­terly Jour­nal of Finance intends to pub­lish high-​quality papers in all areas of finance, includ­ing cor­po­rate finance, asset pric­ing, finan­cial econo­met­rics, inter­na­tional finance, macro-​finance, behav­ioral finance, bank­ing and finan­cial inter­me­di­a­tion, cap­i­tal mar­kets, risk man­age­ment and insur­ance, deriv­a­tives, quan­ti­ta­tive finance, cor­po­rate gov­er­nance and com­pen­sa­tion, invest­ments and entre­pre­neur­ial finance.

More Information

• Aim and Scope and Edi­to­r­ial Board
• Man­u­script Sub­mis­sion Guide­lines and Author Rights
• Order the QJF or Con­tact the QJF
• Sub­mit Man­u­script Online
• Pay Man­u­script Sub­mis­sion Fee

Out­stand­ing Paper Award Cash Prize

To fur­ther pro­mote the Quar­terly Jour­nal of Finance (QJF) as a flag­ship jour­nal of the finance com­mu­nity, the Mid­west Finance Asso­ci­a­tion and World Sci­en­tific Pub­lish­ing Com­pany are proud to announce the estab­lish­ment of the Best QJF Paper Award with an annual cash prize of USD 5000 for the out­stand­ing pub­lished paper, start­ing with the 2013 vol­ume. The deci­sion about the award will be made by the Editor-​in-​Chief in con­sul­ta­tion with mem­bers of the Edi­to­r­ial Board and MFA Board of Direc­tors. The recipient(s) of the award will be announced in the first issue of the jour­nal of the fol­low­ing year as well as at the Annual Meet­ing of the Mid­west Finance Association.