Brookings Institution has extended its deadline for proposals for its sixth annual
Organizers are seeking proposals for a broad variety of topics on any aspect of state and local fiscal policy and finance. Papers need not be original to this conference.
Think tank Brookings is expanding this year's conference to two days, July 17 and 18.
The conference, moved to Washington from Boston last year, aims to bring together academics, practitioners, issuers and regulators to discuss recent research on muni markets, municipal finance and state and local finance.
Brookings' Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy is organizing the event along with Brandeis International Business School's Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance, the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.
Send a proposal or abstract to Lilia Cherchari at
Brookings will make selection decisions by April 1, with drafts for selected papers due by June 1, 2017. Details about the conference are available on the Brookings website.
Brookings will award two prizes to the best papers -- one for the best paper on some aspect of municipal capital markets, and another for the best paper on state, local and regional economic and fiscal issues.
Each prize winner will receive $3,000.
