Organize
Become a member of the Program Committee by organizing a session with 4 to 6 papers or establishing a study/working group. If you are interested in joining the program committee, send an outline of your proposed session to iaes@iaes.org by 15 December 2022. Please include a 250-400 word overview/summary of the proposed session, along with the names, contact information and presentation titles (even if tentative) of all presenters. No more than half of the session’s authors or co-authors can be from the same department or center and a person cannot author or co-author more than one paper in the same session. Paper submission fees are waived for your session participants if they submit before 15 January 2023, however registration fees will still apply.
Please feel free to contact our office for guidance if you have never organized a session previously and are interested in doing so.
Instructions for Chairing
You may volunteer to serve as a chair for one or more sessions or serve as a discussant at the conference. If you are willing to serve as a chair and do not plan to present a paper, please email iaes@iaes.org with your top three preferred JEL codes. If you wish to serve as a chair and do plan to present a paper to present at the conference, please indicate this when submitting your paper online, so that we can avoid scheduling conflicts.
Session chairs have the following responsibilities:
- Ensure that the authors in the session e-mail their papers to the session participants and the discussant assigned to their papers by 15 February 2023.
- Ensure that each paper has a discussant. If there are not enough discussants for the papers in the session, the chair should solicit volunteers from the authors in the session.
- Serve as timekeeper/moderator during the session. Each session chair is responsible for seeing that presenters and discussants stay within their time limit. Since each session is only two hours long, start and end times must be strictly adhered to. If time permits, the chair may lead a round-table discussion with the authors.
- Please fill out the chair questionnaire and e-mail it to iaes@iaes.org, or fax it to 404-965-1556.
Instructions for Discussants
Serving as a discussant in a session allows presenters to receive valuable feedback from their peers and helps provide a better conference experience for participants. If you wish to serve as a discussant and do not plan to present a paper, please email iaes@iaes.org indicating the number of papers, your top 3 preferred JEL code(s), and the area(s) in which you would be willing to discuss. Discussants play a vital role in the conference by offering colleagues comments and suggestions about their research.
Discussants have the following responsibilities:
- Read the assigned paper and prepare 3-5 minutes of comments/suggestions regarding the author(s) research. Additional feedback can be provided following the authors(s) presentation.
- If you have not received a copy of the paper by 15 February 2023, directly contact the author and iaes@iaes.org. With agreement from the session chair, you may have a late paper deleted or choose not to discuss it because it was late. Please contact iaes@iaes.org if you are unable to discuss a paper for this reason.
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