Call for Sessions and Papers for the January 2013 American Economic Association Annual Meeting.

Members wishing to give papers or organize complete sessions for the program for the AEA meetings in San Diego, January 4–6, 2013, are invited to submit proposals electronically (NO hardcopies!) to Professor Claudia Goldin via the American Economic Association web site at http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/submissions.php. The submission portal for the 2013 annual AEA meeting opens on March 1, 2012. While papers covering a wide array of topics in economics will be included on the 2013 program, we are especially interested in receiving proposals that interpret current economic issues in light of the past.

To be considered, individual paper proposals (with abstracts) should be submitted by April 1, 2012. They should contain only one Journal of Economic Literature bibliographic code. The deadline for complete session proposals is April 15, 2012. At least one author of each paper must be an AEA member (noneconomist authors of papers on a complete session proposal organized by a member must join the AEA if the session is selected for the program).

Proposals for complete sessions have a much higher probability of inclusion (35–40%) than papers submitted individually (10–15%). Individual paper contributors are encouraged to use the Econ-Harmony website http://www.aeaweb.org/econ-harmony/ after February 12, 2012, to form integrated sessions. Proposals for a complete session should be submitted only by the session organizer. Sessions normally do not contain more than four papers.

Please make sure your information is complete before submission. No changes can be accepted until a decision is made about inclusion on the program (usually July). Econometric studies or highly mathematical papers are not appropriate for AEA-sponsored sessions; such papers should be submitted to the Econometric Society. Do not send a complete paper. Under no circumstances should more than two proposals be submitted by the same proposer.

Some of the papers presented at the annual meeting are published in the May American Economic Review (the Papers & Proceedings). The president-elect will include at least three contributed sessions (12 papers) from among those submitted in response to this Call for Sessions and Papers.