Brandeis International Business School co-hosted the Fourth Annual Municipal Finance Conference with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on August 7, 2015. The conference was held at the Boston Fed. The conference was conceptualized and founded by Daniel Bergstresser and Olin’s Richard Ryffel, senior lecturer in finance and director of the MBA Finance Platform.

The conference is sponsored each year by the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School (IBS). The first conference was held in 2012 at Brandeis IBS, and has since grown to accommodate over 250 academics, practitioners, regulators and issuers each year.

The James A. Lebenthal Memorial “Excellence in Municipal Finance Research” prize, a $2,500 award for best paper submitted for this conference, was sponsored solely by Washington University in St. Louis.