TO:	Authors in the Tax Policy and the Economy Conference

FROM:	Rob Shannon, Assistant Director, Conferences

DATE:	August 18, 2004

RE:	Logistical Information

On behalf of James Poterba, I would like to formally invite you to participate in the NBER's Tax Policy and the Economy Conference. The conference will take place on Thursday, October 7, 2004, at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC. The preliminary program can be found at http://www.nber.org/~confer/2004/tpe04/program.html

The NBER will reimburse your travel and lodging expenses in accordance with our travel regulations (http://www.nber.org/~confer/2000/travelreg.html). Hotel reservations will be made as requested at the Willard Inter-Continental, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 202/628-9100. The NBER will pay for your room and tax for one night.

The Bureau will reimburse only APEX or super saver, advance purchase air fares. Under no circumstances will first, business or full coach class fares be reimbursed. Please note that discounted fares must be booked at least 21 days in advance and we hope you book your travel as soon as possible since the most deeply discounted seats are few and sell out early.

Please reply via email through the Conference Department's reply form at <<replyurl>>. Please reply no later than September 3, 2004.

The NBER's Conference Department homepage can be found at www.nber.org/~confer. Papers for the conference can be found here as they become available to the NBER.

As a reminder, you will receive a $4,000 honorarium per paper for preparing and presenting the paper.

To recap the schedule:

Friday, September 17 - Your final version due

Thursday, October 7 - Conference in DC

Monday, October 5 - Final revisions due

Please be advised that the meeting will be held in a large conference room, so if you are planning to use overheads, please make sure that they will be readable to participants in the back of the room. The minimum point size you should use for overheads is eighteen.

If you have any questions or need additional information please feel free to contact me at 617/868-
3900, fax 617/864-1825, or e-mail at confer@nber.org.