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NBER: Fw: Fw: NBER Travel Agency
Subject: Fw: Fw: NBER Travel Agency
From: Michael Grossman (mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 15:22:03 EST
The message below from Carl Beck, Director of the NBER Conference Department
to me may interest you. In a subsequent phone conversation, Carl said that
American Express Travel certainly could be used to purchase tickets for
professional meetings such as AEA or PAA. Sometimes American Express Travel
will have discounts and sometimes they will not. If you have a grant, you
must pay American Express for the tickets and then get reimbursed from the
grant.
Michael Grossman
National Bureau of Economic Research
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, New York 10016-4309
212-817-7959 (phone)
212-817-1597 (fax)
mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu (e-mail)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/economics/faculty/grossman.htm (home page)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Beck" <cbeck@nber.org>
To: "Michael Grossman" <mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: NBER Travel Agency
> Dear Michael,
>
> Summer Institute rules are different from any other meeting rules.
>
> Summer fares are always paid by the participants and then reimbursed at
the
> $100/day rule. There are some exceptions for full fledged conferences run
> during the summer institute, but only a few.
>
> For regular program meetings, we pay the discounted fare and those fares
> can be charged directly to the Bureau through American Express. You are
> welcome to use the American Express people for all you other travel,
> too. You cannot charge other travel directly to the Bureau. Our accounts
> there are set up to reflect each of our meetings. That eases our
> bookkeeping, but excludes charging other meetings directly. For travel to
> be charged to a grant, the regular reimbursement form would be used.
>
> I hope that helps to clarify, but please ask if you have more questions.
>
> Carl
>
> At 10:55 PM 2/8/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >Lita, Carl, Rob, and Sue,
> >
> >Please see the message below. I have several questions regarding travel
> >through American Express Travel.
> >
> >(1). As you know, the Summer Institute reimburses travel expenses at
$100
> >a day for each day of attendance. That means that $67.20 of the fare in
> >the message below would not be paid by the Bureau. Would the fare be
> >charged to the Bureau's account with American Express Travel and then the
> >excess be reimbursed either by me or from one of my grants? Or would I
> >have to pay American Express Travel and then get reimbursed from the
Bureau?
> >
> >(2). I take it that people who are invited to the Summer Institute but
> >who do not have Bureau affiliations can take advantage of the discounts
> >offered by American Express. Is that correct?
> >
> >(3). Can I take advantage of the discounts to present papers from my
> >Bureau grants at professional meetings (for example, the AEA Meetings or
> >the PAA Meetings)?
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Mike
> >Michael Grossman
> >National Bureau of Economic Research
> >365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
> >New York, New York 10016-4309
> >212-817-7959 (phone)
> >212-817-1597 (fax)
> ><mailto:mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu (e-mail)
>
><http://web.gc.cuny.edu/economics/faculty/grossman.htm>http://web.gc.cuny.e
du/economics/faculty/grossman.htm
> >(home page)
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>Michael Grossman
> >To: <mailto:he@nber.org>Health Economics
> >Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:23 PM
> >Subject: NBER Travel Agency
> >
> >The Bureau uses American Express Travel in Cambridge as its travel
> >agency. The phone number is 1-800-964-7409. You definitely should book
> >travel through the agency for two reasons. First, the fare is charged
> >directly to the Bureau. You do not have to pay yourself and then get
> >reimbursed. Second, the fare is discounted even if you fly from New York
> >to Boston on the Delta or U.S. Air Shuttles. I just booked a round-trip
> >flight for the March 26 Health Economics Program Meeting. The full-cost
> >round-trip fare is $483.20. The discounted fare is $267.20. Discounted
> >fares are not available if you travel from New York to Boston via Amtrak.
> >
> >
> >
> >Michael Grossman
> >National Bureau of Economic Research
> >365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
> >New York, New York 10016-4309
> >212-817-7959 (phone)
> >212-817-1597 (fax)
> ><mailto:mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu (e-mail)
>
><http://web.gc.cuny.edu/economics/faculty/grossman.htm>http://web.gc.cuny.e
du/economics/faculty/grossman.htm
> >(home page)
>
>
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