Month: August 2025

The 7th annual conference of the Baltic Economic Association took place on June 26-27, 2025, and was jointly hosted by the ISM University of Management and Economics and Lietuvos Bankas.

The conference was attended by 89 participants, 51 papers were presented and discussed.

Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) gave the keynote speech addressing the recent developments on the frontier of research on the economic costs of ambiguous laws.

As every year, the BEA prize was awarded to the best paper presented by a PhD student. This year it was won by Marta Guash-Rusinol (LSE).

Looking forward to meeting you at the 8th Baltic Economic Conference, which will take place on 25-26 June 2026 in Riga, Latvia.

The 3rd edition of the Baltic Central Bank Invited Lecture Series took place on May 21-23, 2025, in Riga.

The BCBILS training course topic in 2025 was “Local projections for applied economics”. It was delivered by renowned macroeconomist Professor Óscar Jordà, a senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Professor of Economics at the University of California. Professor Jordà is widely recognized for his research on monetary and fiscal policy and his pioneering work on local projections in applied economic research. The training course was followed by a seminar focused on research utilizing local projections in applied economics.