The Davidson Institute encourages researchers to share their findings in the areas of emerging markets through the William Davidson Institute Working Paper Series. This is the only working paper series in North America to focus exclusively on business economic and policy issues in emerging markets. The Davidson Institute Working Paper Series are top ranked worldwide in terms of downloads.

Prior to electronically submitting your working paper, please make sure that you have checked all of the following:

1. We require a Word version to facilitate formatting of the paper by Institute staff. Once formatted, files are posted to the web site in .pdf only.  If the paper is submitted as a .pdf, it will be uploaded as is. No other format for submission can be accepted.
   
2. Make sure the title page is complete with contact information for author(s).
3. Submit JEL Codes and up to 5 Keywords. If applicable, the list should include the general research area (e.g. finance, labor, etc.) and the country or geographical region (e.g. Russia, Eastern Europe, etc.) studied. These words are used by the search engine to help others locate pertinent papers.
4. Paper should include an abstract (approximately 100 words) and a non-technical summary (1-2 pages) is optional.

Papers written by authors who are not WDI Research Fellows will need to be reviewed for acceptance.  Please also note that currently we are not uploading to the RePEc website at this time.  However, we are still uploading to the Social Science Research Network.

Papers or questions concerning papers should be directed to: WDIworkingpapers@umich.edu