WASHINGTON — The organizers of The Municipal Finance Conference are seeking research papers on a broad variety of topics related to state and local fiscal policy and finance in advance of the conference this summer, they announced Wednesday.
The 8th annual Municipal Finance Conference is slated to take place July 15-16 at the Brookings Institution in the nation’s capital. It is a joint venture of Brookings, Brandeis University, Washington University in St. Louis, and The University of Chicago. The conference “aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and state and local government officials to discuss recent research on municipal finance,” and frequently draws prominent members of the muni research community.
The deadline for proposals is March 1, and papers that have been presented elsewhere are eligible. Last year’s conference featured, among many works, a paper examining municipal advisors in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act by Brandeis Professor Dan Bergstresser and another examining life without advance refundings by Andrew Kalotay of Kalotay Analytics.
Papers will be chosen for inclusion by April 5, and drafts of the selected papers will be due by June 7, the organizers announced.
The conference agenda has not been announced. Registration will open in April.
By Kyle Glazier
BY SOURCEMEDIA | MUNICIPAL | 01/24/19 07:02 PM EST