Call for Papers
31st Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
February 22, 2016
National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Dear Public Economics Program Members:
I am writing to encourage you to be part of the 31st annual Tax
Policy and the Economy conference, which will be held in Washington,
D.C. on Thursday, September 22, 2016. The TPE conference is the
NBER's signature event in Washington, and provides a terrific way to
expose the policy community - including the professional staffs at
Treasury, CBO, OMB, JCT, SSA, and related institutions - to your
research. The conference this year will also be during the election
campaigns, so papers on federal economic policy will have particular relevance.
In addition to papers on tax policy, this conference has a long
tradition of including research on areas related to public
expenditures, so nearly any topic in public economics may be
suitable. Papers should be policy relevant and accessible to the
audience, but should not make policy recommendations.
First drafts of conference papers will be due at the beginning of
July, with a final draft due in late August. The Tax Policy and the
Economy volume will be published by the University of Chicago Press
in early 2017.
A $6,000 per paper honorarium will be provided to the authors. There
will be a $75 per business day penalty for missing any of the
deadlines, the proceeds of which are redistributed among the authors
who are on time.
If you have a paper you would like to submit, please upload a copy
here by February 28:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=TPE16.
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.
Robert Moffitt
moffitt_at_jhu.edu
Received on Mon Feb 22 2016 - 12:09:27 EST
