National Tax Association

All graduate students at accredited U.S. and Canadian Institutions and individuals who will receive the doctoral degree or its equivalent after July 1, 2012, and before June 28, 2013, are eligible for the awards. The deadline for submission is June 28, 2013.

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 2013.

The awards will be presented at the 106^th Annual Conference on Taxation in Tampa, Florida, November 21-23, 2013. 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.

• Nomination/Entry form

All correspondence regarding the awards, including entry and nomination forms, letters of nomination, and dissertations should be addressed to:

National Tax Association

725 15^th Street NW Suite 600

Washington DC 20005-2109

For further information, contact the National Tax Association at 202-737-3325 or natltax@aol.com.

NTA Dissertation Awards Recipients