The Western Finance Association (WFA) is an international professional society for academicians and practitioners with a scholarly interest in the development and application of research in

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

. Its purpose is: *to serve as a focal point for communication among members, *to improve teaching and scholarship, and *to provide for the dissemination of information, including the holding of meetings and the support of publications. The Western Finance Association meeting,

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meeting, and

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Cavalcade are considered to be the three top general finance conferences in the world. The society's inaugural meeting was held in August 1965 at the annual convention of the Western Economic Association (WEA). More than 200 members were enrolled during the first year, 430 by the end of the second year. Officers elected were Kenneth L. Trefftzs (University of Southern California), President; Edward W. Reed (University of Oregon), Vice President and Omer L. Carey (Washington State University), Secretary-Treasurer. Its current President is Josef Zechner (

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) and past Presidents include

Douglas Diamond Douglas Warren Diamond (born October 25, 1953) is an American economist. He is currently the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979. Diamond ...

Richard C. Green Richard Carleton Green (April 26, 1953 – October 9, 2015) was an economist, specializing in financial economics. He was the Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Chair and Professor of Financial Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie ...

Ravi Jagannathan Ravi Jagannathan is an American economist. He is a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989–1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Jagannatha ...

Sheridan Titman Sheridan Dean Titman is a professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the McCombs School of Business. He received a B.S. degree (1975) from the University of C ...

, and Dr. Lemma Senbet{{Cite web, url=http://westernfinance.org/about/, title = About (founder of Lemma Senbet Fund).

External links

WFA website
westernfinance.org

References

Economics societies Finance industry associations Organizations established in 1965