The Community Affairs officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the seventh annual Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, to be held April 28–29, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. The conference will highlight new research that can directly inform community development policy and practice in the wake of the deepest recession since the pre-War period.
We invite researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to submit papers that present new and innovative research under the following five broad topic areas: Understanding Community Change, The Future of Consumer Credit, Bridging the Divide between People and Place, Measuring the Impact of Community Development, and Community Development Finance. Papers outside these specific topics that fit within the underlying theme are also welcome, including research papers on small business, microenterprise, social enterprise and self-employment, economic development, economics and identity, green building and the green economy, and neighborhood stabilization.
Please visit http://www.frbsf.org/community/2011ResearchConference/ for additional information. The deadline to submit a paper or extended abstract is September 15, 2010. If you have further questions, contact Carolina Reid, Research Manager of Community Development at the San Francisco Fed.
