American Taxation Association

The 19th annual ATA midyear meeting will feature a session devoted exclusively to research by new faculty and doctoral students. This session provides new faculty and Ph.D. Students an excellent opportunity to gain exposure by presenting their research in a conference setting and to receive constructive feedback on their work. Selected papers will be made available in advance of the midyear meeting through the ATA web site. We invite authors to submit research papers and research-in-process papers.

Research-in-process must be sufficiently developed to allow informed feedback (e.g., well-developed background and theory, clearly stated hypotheses, and planned statistical analysis).

Dual submission of manuscripts to the JATA Conference and the New Faculty/Doctoral Research Session is allowed. Should a paper be accepted for both sessions, the author will be asked to choose either the JATA Conference or the New Faculty/Doctoral Research Session.

Eligibility
In order for a paper to qualify for the New Faculty and Doctoral Student Research Session, at least one author must have started their first tenure-track faculty position during the 2003-2004 academic year or later or be a doctoral student. Doctoral students are invited to submit papers based on their dissertation or other working papers.

Papers already accepted for publication prior to the selection announcement are ineligible; submission of papers close to publication acceptance is discouraged.

Doctoral Student Support
The ATA will partially support doctoral students who have papers accepted for this session; the registration fee will be waived and one night¹s lodging at the hotel will be provided.

Deadline
Submissions must be received by NOVEMBER 1, 2006.
Papers selected for the session will be announced by December 15, 2006.

Submission
Questions and submissions should be made electronically to Jon Davis at jdavis@bus.wisc.edu. Please include ³New Faculty/Doctoral Research² in the subject line of the email. Manuscripts should be either MS Word files or pdf files attached to an email. Since a blind review process will be used to evaluate manuscripts, send the title page in a separate file from the manuscript file and delete any identifying information from the manuscript file. A statement indicating the manuscript¹s status should accompany the submission; the statement should also note if the manuscript is being simultaneously submitted to the JATA Conference.