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NBER: program news
Subject: program news
From: James Poterba (poterba@mit.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 15:00:42 EDT
Dear Program Members:
It was wonderful to see many of you at the Summer Institute last
week. I am writing to update you about future program activities, and to
ask for your suggestions regarding the Summer Institute of 2005.
First, a bit of scheduling. You should have recently received a
call for papers for the Fall Program Meeting which will be held in
Cambridge on October 28 and 29. I have already received a number of
exciting submissions for the program, and I hope that you will mark your
calendars and try to attend if possible. In 2005, our program meetings are
scheduled for April 7-8, and October 27-28. I hope that you will try to
save those dates as well. The summer institute in 2005 will be held during
the week of July 25, a week earlier than this year because we don't have to
contend with a national party convention in Boston.
Second, I would welcome any suggestions about new activities to introduce
to the Summer Institute schedule. We have been doing roughly the same
thing for a number of years: an environmental economics meeting, a real
estate/local public finance meeting, a Social Security-related meeting, a
taxation meeting, and recently a session on the Economics of National
Security. If you think there is an emerging or established body of work
that consists of several interesting papers and that would seem like a
natural fit for a summer institute session, please let me know. What we
have at the moment seems to be working well, but there are always ways to
improve!
Finally, I want to invite suggestions for possible presentations at the
October 2005 Tax Policy and the Economy meeting in Washington. TP&E
focuses on papers that are broadly accessible to the Washington tax policy
community. Ideally, they bear on current policy debates and offer valuable
background or an analytical framework for thinking about current
issues. If you have a paper that would be suitable for such a meeting, or
if you have an existing research paper that you might be able to summarize
in a less technical way for that meeting, please let me know.
I hope that you are having a productive and pleasant summer, and look
forward to seeing you in October if not before. All best wishes.
Jim Poterba
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