The Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy

Each CRNYU Conference conference is organized around a public policy or economic theme or topic, with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. This conference seeks proposals that analyze the causes, consequences, and policy implications of barriers to mobility across the income and wealth distribution. The principal objectives of the conferences are to stimulate policy relevance and empirical research in economic science, to encourage interchange of scientific ideas .. continue reading among analysts with different approaches, and to generate greater understanding by academic economists of practitioners' environments. Each conference is organized around a particular theme or topic with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. The conference receives financial support from the National Science Foundation and from its host institutions. The Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy was initiated in the early 1970s through the efforts of the Bradley Policy Research Center at the William E. Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and the Center for the Study of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Under the leadership of the late Allan Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University) and the late Karl Brunner (University of Rochester), the conference developed into a semi-annual event held in April in Rochester and November in Pittsburgh.