ABFM Call for Proposals

On behalf of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, we invite you to submit a paper or panel proposal for its annual research conference. This year's conference will be held September 28-30 in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Marriott. We encourage both academics and practitioners to submit proposals. Below is a list of selected topics on which papers and panels have focused in recent conferences.

• Tax Policy and Administration
• Budgetary Theory
• The Politics of the Budgetary Process
• Transportation Finance, Budgeting and Economic Development
• International and Comparative Budgeting
• The History of Budgeting
• Citizen Participation in Budgeting
• Budget Reform
• Current Trends in Public Finance
• Public Pensions
• Healthcare Liabilities
• Forecasting
• Investment Management
• Intergovernmental Finance/Fiscal Federalism
• Municipal Securities
• Performance Budgeting
• Budgeting for National Security, Debt Financing and Management
• Education Finance
• Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Revenue Diversification
• Not-for-Profit Finance/Financial Management
• Budget Rules and Institutions
• Financial Management
• Capital Planning and Management
• Financing Urban Governments
• Public-Private Partnerships

Submission

• Please submit all paper and panel proposals by April 30, 2017.
• Click here to submit a paper proposal
• Click here to submit a panel proposal
• Proposals will be reviewed and competitively selected
• Submit questions to the conference committee at [email protected]
• Send inquiries regarding the special Asia session track to Chen Gang, Assistant Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York, [email protected]