Call for Papers
25th Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
September 23, 2010
National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Dear Corporate Finance Program Members:
As many of you know, the NBER hosts an annual "Tax Policy and the Economy"
conference in Washington, D.C. This year marks the 25th anniversary of this
conference, which was started by Marty Feldstein and Larry Summers to help
disseminate policy-relevant research to the Washington DC policy
community. Over the years, under the successive editorships of Larry
Summers, David Bradford, and Jim Poterba, the research presented at this
conference has proven very influential in both academic and policy
circles. The half-day conference is always well-attended by economists,
researchers and staffers throughout the U.S. government, including both
executive and legislative branches. We tend to have especially strong
showings from economists at Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, the
Office of Management and Budget, the Joint Tax Committee and other related
institutions.
While the call for papers typically goes out to the NBER public economics
program, this year I wanted to also extend the invitation for the 2010
conference to the NBER program in corporate finance. I am particularly
interested in papers that investigate issues at the nexus of tax policy and
corporate finance, such as how taxes affect capital structure, payout
behavior or investment decisions of firms.
The conference, which will include 5-6 papers, will be held in Washington,
D.C. on Thursday, September 23, 2010. Papers should be policy relevant,
either for current policy debates or for long-standing topics of important
for tax or expenditure policy. (As is always the case for NBER
publications, however, the papers cannot make policy
recommendations.) Papers tend to be less technical than those for academic
journals, and in many cases, it is possible to write a successful
"spin-off" paper that is related to your ongoing research agenda.
First drafts of conference papers will be due in early August, and the
conference timetable is such that there is very little time for revisions
after the meeting. The Tax Policy and the Economy volume will be published
by the University of Chicago Press in early 2011. An honorarium will be
provided to the authors.
If you have a research project that might be suitable for this meeting,
please upload a copy here
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=TPE10
by Friday, February 12. The meeting has usually included only work by NBER
authors, but if there is a very interesting paper by a non-NBER researcher
that might be suitable for this meeting, I would appreciate your calling
that to my attention.
I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Jeff Brown
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Jeffrey R. Brown
William G. Karnes Professor of Finance
Director, Center for Business and
Public Policy
University of Illinois
340 Wohlers Hall
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-3322
brownjr_at_illinois.edu
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Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 09:42:24 EST
