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NATIONAL
TAX ASSOCIATION
2008 Annual Competition for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in
Government Finance and Taxation:
All graduate students at accredited
U.S.
and Canadian Institutions
and individuals who will receive the doctoral degree or its equivalent after
July 1, 2007
, and before
June 1, 2008
, are eligible for the
awards. The deadline for submission is
June
15, 2008
.
Dissertations
(theoretical and applied) may be on any topic in the area of government finance,
including taxation, debt and fiscal policy, public choice, expenditures,
budgeting, administrative and management science applications, program analysis,
and policy evaluation.
Entries
will be judged by a panel of experts on the basis of originality, clarity of
exposition, and significance of the analysis for scholars and practitioners of
government finance.
The
winner receives $2,000 and the opportunity to adapt the manuscript for
publication in the National
Tax Journal. Two honorable mention awards of $1,000 each may be given
for other outstanding entries. The winners will be announced in September 2008.
The
awards will be presented at the 101st
Annual Conference on Taxation in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
,
November 20-22, 2008
. Papers based on the
dissertations are delivered at a special session - Frontiers of Public Finance -
and are published in the Conference Proceedings.
All
submissions must be accompanied by an entry application, nomination form, and
formal letter of nomination from the chair of the doctoral dissertation
committee certifying the date of its acceptance and the specific qualities that
warrant its nomination. These are available from the National Tax Association
web site at http://www.ntanet.org, or contact NTA at natltax@aol.com or
202-737-3325.
All correspondence regarding the awards, including entry
and nomination forms, letters of nomination, and dissertations should be addressed to:
National
Tax Association
725
15th Street
NW Suite
600
Washington
DC 20005-2109
For
further information, contact the National Tax Association at 202-737-3325 or
natltax@aol.com.
A list of past winners can be found here.
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