TO: Potential Authors
FROM: Mark Gertler and Pete Klenow
RE: Call for Papers
Martin Eichenbaum and Erik Hurst will be the
organizers for the research meeting of the
National Bureau of Economic Research Program on
Economic Fluctuations and Growth, to be held in
Chicago on Friday, October 25, 2013.
The NBER Program on Economic Fluctuations and
Growth holds research meetings three times a
year. The purpose of these meetings is to
discuss research relevant to macroeconomics that
is approximately in the working paper
stage. After a brief presentation by the author,
a discussant gives a fairly detailed critique and
then there is an open discussion. Research
meetings do not have published proceedings most
of the papers presented at them are published
later in journals. The meetings attract the top
researchers from all the schools of
macroeconomics. Though the focus of the meetings
is on macro, the topics of the papers often
involve related fields including finance, labor
economics, applied microeconomics of the firm and
household, public finance, and others.
We are writing to you because you may have done
some work recently that would be suitable for our
meeting in Chicago on October 25, 2013. We make
this inference because you have been involved in
our meetings in the past or because of the type of research you do.
The organizers have a broad mandate to assemble a
program of six papers of the highest quality and
interest, without further limitation on the
subject. We would appreciate receiving copies of
papers from prospective authors which we can consider for the program.
If you are interested in presenting a paper,
please upload a pdf file using the following
website, no later than August 23, 2013:
http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=EFGf13
We are also interested in getting your
recommendations for other papers. If you know of
a paper that fits our needs, could you forward
this e-mail so that the author can upload the paper for submission?
In order to keep the organizers’ job manageable,
we have established the following ground rules:
1. Don't approach the organizers personally or
telephone them. Rather, upload your the paper to the NBER webpage given above.
2. The paper must be in a form suitable for
presentation at the time you send it to the
organizers. We are not allowed to put a paper on
the program on the basis of a prospectus or
partly finished paper. However, if you do come
up with an improved version before we mail the
papers, we will use the improved version. Our
successful sub-game perfect strategy is to
distribute the original version unless the new
version reaches our office by the specified deadline.
3. You will not hear from the organizers unless
they decide to use your paper. They are not
journal editors or program committee chairmen for
a society. They act with absolutely final
authority; there is no appeal to James Poterba,
to us, or to federal district court.
4. For consideration your paper must be submitted by August 23, 2013.
Received on Fri Jul 19 2013 - 09:54:15 EDT
