Call for Papers
36th Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
September 23, 2021 at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Dear Public Economics Program Members:
I am writing to encourage you to be part of the 36th annual Tax
Policy and the Economy conference, which will be held in Washington,
D.C. on Thursday, September 23, 2021 (Hopefully in person but this is
not guaranteed). 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. There is a
new administration in town and policy discussions of taxes and
transfers are likely to be prominent.
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.
Please keep in mind that many TPE papers are spinoffs of projects
where authors intend to later submit a different, often more
technical version, to another journal, or where authors have recently
published a more technical or different version. Also, sometimes
authors wish to write up initial, or preliminary results from a
project, intending to write a later paper with final and more
technical results for submission to a different journal. While no TPE
paper should be a duplicate of another paper, spinoffs of other
projects, reformulated versions which put results into a more general
context and summarize them in more accessible language, and
preliminary-results papers, are completely acceptable submissions to
the TPE (as well as stand-alone projects, of course).
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 2022.
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 March 1:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=TPE21.
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 Jan 25 2021 - 13:59:30 EST
