NTA: 37th Annual Competition for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in Government Finance and Taxation

Sponsor: The NATIONAL TAX ASSOCIATION (NTA)

The National Tax Association awards an annual prize for the doctoral dissertation that makes the most significant contribution to the field of 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, 2006 , and before June 1, 2007 , are eligible for the awards.

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 awards will be presented at the 100th Annual Conference on Taxation in Columbus, Ohio, November 15-17, 2007. Papers based on the dissertations are delivered at a special session - Frontiers of Public Finance - and are published in the Conference Proceedings.

Amount: 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 2007.

Deadline: June 15, 2007 .

For further information, please visit: http://www.ntanet.org/