Frequently
Asked Questions
Conference Papers and Sessions
How do I submit a paper on the SEA website?
Do I have to submit my finished paper right now?
Do I have to be a member of the SEA to submit a paper for the conference?
How do I view contact information for participants in my session(s)?
Do I have to bring my own laptop for my powerpoint presentation? Is an overhead projector available?
Conference Registration and Hotel
Why can't I log in? I entered my User ID and Password, but I'm still not able to log in.
Why can't I register for the conference at the member rate? I just purchased a membership through Member Services.
Why don't you take all credit cards?
Why do you insist that participants wear name badges? I was stopped by your security personnel who asked to see mine.
I want to bring my spouse/friend/child/significant other to the conference only to sit in on my paper session. They will not be presenting or actually participating in the conference. Do I have to register that individual?
That's the conference rate for the hotel? I paid a lot less at the ASSA meetings!
Why can't you refer me to a cheaper hotel?
How do I submit a paper on the SEA website?
You may submit a paper by clicking the "SEA Conferences" link on the left side of the SEA homepage. Then click the "Submit a Paper" link located in the center of the page. You should then be able to enter your paper information and abstract by following the onscreen instructions. You can also enter your credit card submission fee payment during this process. For further reference, view the full paper submission instructions by clicking here.
Do I have to submit my finished paper right now?
No. You may submit an abstract of your research. The full paper is not required until 30 days prior to the conference.
Do I have to be a member of the SEA to submit a paper for the conference?
No. However, you will have to register for the conference and pay the registration fee in order to attend and present your paper.
How do I view contact information for participants in my session(s)?
You must be logged in to the conference website to access participant contact information. To access participant information, please select the SEA Conferences link from the red menu located on the left of the SEA Website. Then select "Meetings Log in" from the SEA Conferences Webpage detail selections. You will need your email address and your SEA conference password to log-in to the system. If you have not received an SEA Conference password, please select the "Click Here" in the sentence "If you have not yet received a password for the Southern Economic Association website, click here" (located directly below the email and password entry fields). If an SEA Conference password has been assigned, but was forgotten, please select the "Forgot Password" link located in the SEA Conference Webpage detail selections.
Once you have logged-in to the SEA Conference Webpage, select "2009 Annual Meetings" from the red menu located on the left side of the page. Then select the "Program Participants" link in the center of the page. You may then select your name from the participant list to view your sessions. Participant contact information is available by clicking each participant's name in the session details.
Do I have to bring my own laptop for my powerpoint presentation? Is an overhead projector available?
Session participants are responsible for providing their own laptop for use in concurrent meetings.
Each meeting room will be equipped with an LCD projector. Overhead projectors will not be provided.
Why can't I log in? I entered my User ID and Password, but I'm still not able to log in.
Cookies must be enabled on your computer to login to the SEA website. To confirm that your computer is set to allow cookies, open your internet browser and click "Tools" on the browser menu bar at the top of your screen. In the "Tools" menu, please select "Internet Options". Then click on the "Privacy" tab and "Advanced". In the "Advanced" options, please select "Override automatic cookie handling" at the top of the window and "Always allow session cookies" underneath. Click "OK" twice to exit the menu. Close and reopen your browser. If you still experience difficulty, please contact our office.
Also, the SEA Conference website is a masked website, which has caused some participants, with high levels of internet security, difficulty. The unmasked address that follows may be copied and pasted into your web browser:
http://www.etnpconferences.net/sea/sea1109/
Why can't I register for the conference at the member rate? I just purchased a membership through Member Services.
The SEA Member Services website and the SEA Conference website are maintained separately. Our office encourages individuals interested in attending the annual conference to renew or purchase memberships when they register for the conference, which updates the SEA Conference Website immediately. Please allow 5-10 business days for your membership renewal to post to the SEA Conference Website database.
Why don’t you take all credit cards?
It’s too expensive. Additional cards, beyond what we accept, would incur
an extra monthly charge on top of what we already pay to have the ability to
process charges. The Association, as economists, attempts to minimize costs.
Why do you insist that participants wear name badges? I was stopped by your
security personnel who asked to see mine.
Security and costs have become very serious matters since 2001. Hotels have
stepped up their security and all professional associations are trying to more
accurately control their costs. As an economist, one can also see it as a response
to the free rider problem. As long as conference revenues are what make the Journal and the annual conference possible, we must try to minimize that problem.
I want to bring my spouse / friend / child / significant other
to the conference only to sit in on my paper session. They will not be
presenting or actually participating in the conference. Do I have to
register that individual?
Yes. In order to control costs, deal with the free rider problem, and provide the
required security for the conference, SEA policy requires any individual attending
any session of the conference in any capacity to register and pay the appropriate
conference registration fee.
That's the conference rate for the hotel? I paid a lot less at the
ASSA meetings!
The conference hotel rates we are quoted depend on the specific dates we need,
the occupancy rates of the hotel on those dates, and the number of rooms we
commit that our participants will purchase over the days of the conference.
The ASSA brings the hotels it contracts for, between 8000 and 10,000 room night
bookings. The SEA has more like 1,000. As a result of the time of the year,
i.e. Thanksgiving as opposed to immediately following Christmas, hotel occupancy
rates are higher and the vastly smaller number of rooms we contract for, we,
and almost all other professional associations, pay significantly higher rates.
The room rates that we pay also pay for the conference meeting room space
utilized by the various academic paper sessions.
Why can't you refer me to a cheaper hotel?
Our contracts with the hotels include a sliding scale on the cost of the meeting
rooms we reserve for the conference sessions. The scale is based on how many
room nights are booked by participants in our conference. The more participants
who stay at the hotel, the less the meeting space costs the Association. It
would therefore be against the Association's interest to refer participants
to stay elsewhere. We do try to negotiate the best rates we can for a conference
our size, at the time of year, and in the locations that members seem to
prefer.
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