2005 Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting
of the Public Choice Society
New Orleans, Louisiana—March 10–13, 2005

The 2005 meetings of the Public Choice Society will be held at the Hotel Inter-Continental New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, commencing with registration Thursday afternoon, March 10, and finishing at noon on Sunday, March 13. Beginning this year, the Economic Science Association will no longer partner with the Society.  However, the Association strongly encourages the submission of experimental papers related to public choice, which will be included in the general program.

 
Paper proposals, including a brief abstract (300 word maximum), should be submitted by December 20, 2004, to either:

pubchsoc@gmu.edu (e-mail proposals are preferred)

or, mail to: Jo Ann S. Burgess Public Choice Society Secretariat Center for Study of Public Choice Buchanan House—MSN 1E6 George Mason University 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Each submission must have “PCS Proposal Submission” in the subject line, be in .pdf (preferred), Word Perfect, or Microsoft Word format, and include the following information:

Name—In the case of multiple authors, each author attending the conference.
(Note: Please specify the proper surname under which the paper should be listed.)

Affiliation

Complete address—including phone and fax numbers and email

Category—preferably one or, at most, two of the following:

Final papers must be submitted in .pdf format by February 1, 2005, for posting to the website. Overhead projectors will be available for all sessions; we strongly encourage presenters to use this format. LCD projectors are very expensive and beyond the resources of the Society.

Meeting registration is a two-part process.  Please first submit your information online, then mail in your meeting fee with your registration printout.

We encourage you to submit your registration form as soon as possible together with the registration fee ($150 for professors and $75 for students) in the form of a check in U.S. dollars made out to the Public Choice Society. CREDIT CARDS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Registration fees paid after January 15, 2005, will be $180 for professors and $90 for students. Registration fees are nonrefundable. Attendees from outside the U.S. who have difficulty in providing a check in U.S. currency should make special arrangements with Jo Ann Burgess (Email: pubchsoc@gmu.edu; Tel: 1-703-993-2337; Fax: 1-703-993-2334).

The luncheon will be held on Saturday, March 12.  Please let us know in your registration and include an additional $30 with your registration fee.

Participants are strongly urged to use the conference hotel—the Society is committed to the hotel for a number of rooms. It is important to make your reservations early and identify yourself as a participant in the Public Choice Society Meetings in order to take advantage of the established group rate as well as defraying the cost of meeting rooms. The contract rate for a single/double is $165 plus tax and hotel fee. We urge all attendees to schedule arrival and departure times so that all sessions will be well attended. Please contact the hotel directly at:  504-525-5566 or 800-445-6563

Rich in history, famous for exotic cuisine, birthplace of Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong—New Orleans needs no further introduction as the Caribbean of the American South. The Hotel Inter-Continental New Orleans overlooks the historic streetcar route on St. Charles Avenue within walking distance of both the French Quarter and world-renowned Crescent City restaurants and is just minutes away from Riverwalk, the National D-Day Museum, and Audubon Park and Zoological Gardens. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly at 504-525-5566 or toll-free at 1-800-445-6563; no “1” is needed outside the U.S. You can also email your reservation to neworleans@interconti.com or fax to 504-523-7310. The cutoff date for conference-rate reservations is February 9, 2005. After that, rooms will be on a space available basis and at prevailing daily rates.

This way to register for the 2005 Annual Meeting.