The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies invites you to submit paper proposals for our spring conference "The Next Generation of Public Finance." This conference will be held May 5-6, 2016, at Georgia State University. The focus of the conference is on topics that will be front center in the policy debate in the coming decades on the national and subnational levels. Practitioners as well as academics are encouraged to submit proposals. Please email all proposals by February 1, 2016 to Amber Slyter at aslyter1@gsu.edu. Please direct questions to Sally Wallace at swallace@gsu.edu. Proposals will be reviewed and competitively selected.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR
Next
Generation
of Public Finance Conference
May 5-6,
2016
Andrew Young School
of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
14 Marietta Street
NW,
Atlanta, Georgia
We are seeking paper proposals
for a conference on
Next
Generation
of Public Finance.
Current policy challenges including globalization, income inequality, demographic changes, and contingent liabilities call for renewed efforts to identify solutions. The field of public finance is
being challenged to
think about these
challenges with
new tools including field experiments, unprecedented
amounts of data, and an
expanded
view of behavioral economics.
The Next Generation of Public
Finance Conference seeks to focus on topics that we
think will be
front and center in the policy
debate in the coming decades.
We invite proposal for papers that examine these and other policy issues at the national and subnational levels in domestic and
international contexts utilizing a variety of empirical techniques.
Proposals will be reviewed and
competitively selected.
Possible
areas include, but are not
limited
to: Behavioral
responses to taxation
Public budgeting
Public financial
management Evaluation
of public expenditures
Contingent liabilities
Deadline for proposals:
February
1, 2016
Proposals should include title,
abstract, authors. Abstracts
should not be longer
than 2 pages.
Participants may be asked to serve as a discussant.
Travel grants will be available to cover the
cost of travel and hotel
for
one author per
paper.
Proposals should be submitted to Ms. Amber Slyter at aslyter1@gsu.edu. Questions should be directed
to Professor Sally Wallace, swallace@gsu.edu.
Location & Schedule
The conference will take place at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will begin at 8:00 am on Thursday, May 5th and will end
at
1:30 pm on Friday, May 6th.
Registration, Hotel and Travel Information will be available in February 2016 on the
Andrew Young
School of Policy Studies website: aysps.gsu.edu
The Andrew Young School of Policy of Studies is ranked among the top 25 policy
schools in the nation – and among the top 5 for public finance and budgeting. Located in downtown
Atlanta, at the center of one of the country’s largest hubs for government and nonprofit employment, AYSPS is recognized internationally
for
its impact on public policy
and management. Our faculty
and
alumni work with and in local, state and national governments
around the world to advance economic opportunity, human rights, and social justice led by
the philosophy of our namesake,
Ambassador Andrew Young.
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