Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2025
Queen’s University Belfast
8-9 May 2025
About
The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday 8 May to Friday 9 May 2025. The keynote speakers are Professor John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and Professor Renée Adams, Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Preconference activities will also be held at the conference venue on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. Dr. Florian Oswald, Data Editor for the Economic Journal and Associate Professor in Economics at Sciences Po, will conduct practical sessions on replication policies. Romesh Vaitilingam, Editor-in-Chief of the Economics Observatory, member of the editorial board of Vox, writer, and communications consultant, will lead a session on “Making Research Matter.”
Submissions
Three types of submissions to the conference are invited:
- Full presentations: These are 25 minutes in length and require the submission of a full paper by the presenter.
- Short presentations (Flash Talks): These are 10 minutes in length, can be work-in-progress, and require the submission of either an extended abstract (approximately 2 pages) or an early draft paper. While short presentations are primarily aimed at providing early career researchers with an opportunity to present their work and develop their conference experience and skills, these sessions are also open to more experienced researchers who wish to present early-stage work and/or give a shorter presentation.
- Organised sessions: These are full sessions of 1.5 hours on a specific topic or area and are a new initiative at the IEA conference. Proposals for organised sessions must be submitted by one person (i.e., the organiser), and the session should include at least 3, but no more than 4, papers to be presented. One submission should be made by the organiser, including extended abstracts and/or full papers for each presentation, along with a one-page overview and description of the organised session. The inclusion of at least one discussant is encouraged.
The deadline for all submissions is midnight on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. Submissions can be made via the conference website: https://iea2025.exordo.com/. Please note that no author-identifying information should be included in any uploaded file(s) (i.e., papers, extended abstracts, or organised session proposals).
Several prizes will be awarded at the conference, including the Denis Conniffe Prize for best paper by a young economist, the Brendan Walsh Prize for best paper published in the Economic and Social Review, the Novartis Prize for best health economics paper, and the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) Prize for best paper presented by a woman economist.