5th Baltic Economic Conference

 We are pleased to invite paper submissions for the 5th Baltic Economic Conference that will take place on June 19-20, 2023 at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. The Baltic Economic Conference is organized by the Baltic Economic Association, in cooperation with Latvijas Banka and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

We welcome full-length paper submissions from all fields of economics and finance. Each paper will be assigned a discussant. Authors of accepted paper implicitly agree to be a discussant in the conference. Two special sessions will be organized: a session entitled “Monetary Policy Transmission”, and a session entitled “Gender Inequality at Times of Crises”. Relevant accepted submissions will be automatically allocated to these sessions.

Important dates

• February 28: deadline for submissions
• March 31: decisions on submissions
• April 30: registration deadline

Click here to submit a paper via the submission portal

Keynote Speaker: Beata Javorcik (EBRD and University of Oxford)

Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. She is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she is the first woman to hold a Statutory Professorship in Economics. She is also a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and the Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Conference fees

The conference fee is 75 EUR . There is no conference fee for master/PhD students of higher education institutions from the Baltic States nor from employees of institutional members of the Association. Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses.

Award for the best paper presented by a PhD student

The BEA prize, amounting to EUR 500, is awarded to the best paper presented by a PhD student. The candidates for the award are not limited to the Baltic region (neither in terms of institution nor nationality). The following rules apply:

• The paper is presented at the conference;
• All authors of the paper are doctoral students or researchers having defended their thesis in

Conference venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strēlnieku iela 4A, Riga, Latvia. The conference is currently planned to take place in the in-person mode. In case the pandemic restrictions will not allow any physical meetings in Riga in June, the conference will switch to a fully online mode.

Local organizers

Konstantins Benkovskis (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Latvijas Banka), Nicolas Gavoille (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga), Karlis Vilerts (Latvijas Banka)

More information on the webpage: https://conf2023.balticecon.org/

Any inquiries to the organizers can be sent via e-mail to conference@balticecon.org