The Baltic Economic Association
Promoting Economics in the Baltic States since 2018
Please be welcome to join a research seminar by Annika Kaabel and Sirle Lumi, to take place on 7 October, Tuesday between 10:00-11:00.
Title: Ethical AI in practice: A justice-based framework to deploy AI recruitment for human flourishing
Location: EBS room 224 and MS Teams.
MS Teams link for this and following seminars to take place every second Tuesday at 10:00.
Date: 15 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
Venue: Narva 18 – room 1024 and Zoom
Paper title: Diffusion of policy innovation: The case of digital nomad visas
Author: Jan Bednorz (University of Tartu)
Please be invited to the upcoming Latvijas Banka’s Research seminar, to take place on 23 October 10:30-12:00, in which Frederic Warzynski (Princeton University and FIND, Aarhus University) will present his work: AI Adoption, Productivity and Labor Composition: Evidence from Denmark
You are welcome to the Department of Economics and Finance research seminar “East-West Risk Connectedness in the European Banking Sector“.
The seminar will take place on the 8th of October, from 16:00 to 17:00 in room SOC-460 and in MS Teams (LINK).
Presenter: András Bethlendi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
See https://taltech.ee/en/department-economics-and-finance/seminars/ for the whole list of seminars scheduled this semester.
We are pleased to invite paper submissions for the 5th CEFER/KTU/VU Workshop that will take place on November 7, 2025 at Vilnius University. The workshop aims to bring together academic researchers from CEFER, KTU and VU in order to discuss research works, gain feedback and build research links that may provide for fruitful future collaborations. Please note however, that there will not be any publication opportunities that come directly from the workshop.
Programme: The workshop is open to presentations on any topic in economics, broadly defined. While the focus of the workshop will be on faculty researchers, the organisers plan to include a special session for PhD students. Both faculty researchers and PhD students are thus encouraged to apply.
Submission: Please submit complete papers or extended abstracts using the following link here. The extended deadline for submissions is October 10, 2025.
Conference Venue and Mode: the conference will take place physically in Vilnius University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Saulėtekio al. 9, Vilnius.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ceferktuvuworkshop
Scientific committee: Junghum Park (CEFER), Arūnas Burinskas (VU), Ineta Zykienė (KTU).
International research conference “Climate Compass 2025: The Art of Adaptation in the Light of Science” will take place on 27-28 November 2026 in Tartu. The event will bring together researchers, decision-makers, practitioners and climate enthusiasts to discuss the causes and impact of climate change and the ways of adapting to it. Participants share the latest scientific insights and discuss the needs for future development.
Venue: University of Tartu Library and Physicum
The programme of the conference will be published on 27 October.
The 3th Meeting of the Nordic Econometric Network will take place on 1-3 June 2026 in Helsinki, Finland.
Nordic econometric meetings are organised once every two years by the Nordic Econometric Network, and their purpose is to stimulate econometric research in the Nordic countries. The conference brings together researchers working on a broad range of themes covering all aspects of theoretical and applied econometrics, including empirical economic research.
Website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/nordic-econometric-meeting-2026
Keynote speakers: Raffaella Giacomini, Lutz Kilian
Conference fee: 90 EUR.
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.
The 7th annual conference of the Baltic Economic Association will take place on June 26-27, 2025, in Vilnius. The Board of the Association approved (on May 14, 2025) to hold the traditional annual General Meeting of the Baltic Economic Association on the second day of the conference (June 27, 16:30-17:30, Gedimino avenue 7, 01103, Vilnius, Lithuania – see the schedule).
Two Board members, Daiva Dumčiuvienė (representing Lithuania) and Alminas Žaldokas (representing Lithuania), are voluntarily resigning to ensure the annual rotation of the Board composition. Thus, we have two vacant positions for Lithuanian representatives on the BEA Board. The elections will be held during the General Meeting of the Association.
According to our Statutes (paragraph 9.7), Board member candidates can be appointed by the Board, the Advisory Board, or at least five individual members. Candidates shall be appointed at least two days before the General Meeting, notifying the Board via email.
If you are interested in becoming a Board member of BEA or want to suggest a candidate, send an email to conference@balticecon.org indicating your candidate and the list of at least five individual BEA members supporting this candidate (added in cc) until June 25 (cob).
The list of the candidates together with their CVs, as well as other background documents will be sent to you prior to the General Meeting.