39th Annual NBER Summer Institute: Call For Papers

The 39th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts from July 11 to July 29, 2016. Workshops will focus on a number of different topics including:

Asset Pricing Health Care
Corporate Finance Health Economics
Development Economics Household Finance
Development of the American Economy Industrial Organization
Economic Fluctuations and Growth International Finance
Economics of Aging International Trade and Investment
Economics of Children Labor Economics
Economics of Crime Law and Economics
Economics of Education Monetary Economics
Economics of Intellectual Property Personnel Economics
Economics of IT and Digitization Political Economy
Economics of National Security Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Economics of Real Estate Risk of Financial Institutions
Environmental and Energy Economics Social Security
Urban Economics

The NBER provides continental breakfast and lunch each day, as well as limited support services. Authors whose papers are selected for presentation and who are invited to attend any of the workshops must pay for their own transportation and lodging.

Researchers who have completed their Ph.D.s, and who are interested in participating in the 2016 Summer Institute, should submit a copy of the paper they would like considered for the program, or a one page abstract if the paper is not complete, no later than March 25, 2016. Please note that the following workshops will only consider completed manuscripts (abstracts will not be considered): Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Energy and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy. Questions can be sent to .

The call for papers can also be found online at http://www.nber.org/callforpapers/CallSI2016.html