CfP Deadline:
June 1, 2026
Conference Event:
September 29-30, 2026
Event Location:
Chicago, USA
Organizer(s):
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago
Keynote Speaker(s):
John Griffin (University of Texas)
Description:
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago will be co-hosting the 2nd meeting of the Annual Conference on Municipal Bond Markets on September 29-30, 2026. We invite submissions of unpublished and highly policy-relevant research papers on municipal bond markets. A particular preference will be given to papers that study primary market frictions that lead to higher financing costs/shortage of capital for state and local governments, secondary market frictions that increase transactions costs for investors, the role of retail investors or government policies that target these investors for bond price formation, as well as the effect of state and federal policies on state and local government access to external finance. All submissions, both empirical and theoretical, in these areas are welcome.
The keynote speaker for the conference will be John Griffin, the James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Finance at the University of Texas at Austin.
Submission:
The deadline for submitting papers (or extended abstracts) is June 1, 2026. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to chi.muni.finance@chi.frb.org. Municipal market experts or academics interested in serving as discussants at the meeting or who have questions about the conference should contact Ivan Ivanov (email: ivan.ivanov@chi.frb.org). Authors of accepted papers will be notified in June.
Link
CHICAGO FED/UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONFERENCE ON MUNICIPAL BOND MARKETS