Call for Papers
37th Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
September 22, 2022 at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Dear Public Economics Program Members:
I am writing to encourage you to be part of the 37th annual Tax
Policy and the Economy conference, which will be held in a hybrid
format in on Thursday, September 22, 2022. There will be an
in-person meeting in Washington, DC that invitees who are fully
vaccinated may choose to attend. There will also be a virtual
component, and those who are unable or choose not to attend in person
will be able to participate via Zoom. I'd like to encourage all
authors to attend in person if possible.
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. Since the new administration took
office a year ago, there have been major policy discussions of taxes
and transfers in Washington.
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 2023.
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 11:59 pm ET on March 1:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=TPE22.
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 14 2022 - 11:06:05 EST
