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You are welcome to join on 4 November, Tuesday between 10.00-11.00 for a research seminar by Heidi Vähänikkilä.

Abstract: The hospitality industry is highly sensitive to global crises, yet capable of remarkable resilience and innovation. This study explores how hospitality organizations build strategic flexibility to lead change during and beyond crises, focusing on the role of organizational support and leadership. Using survey data from 197 professionals in Finland and Malaysia—two culturally distinct contexts—the research introduces a new framework for change leadership. Findings offer transferable insights for global hospitality firms seeking to strengthen adaptability and crisis response capabilities.

Location: EBS room 203 and MS Teams

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)

Website: https://majandus.ut.ee/en/news/research-seminar-diffusion-policy-innovation-case-digital-nomad-visas-jan-bednorz

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

MS Teams link

 

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.

Website: https://ut.ee/en/news/international-research-conference-climate-compass-2025-art-adaptation-light-science

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. 

Important dates

• Deadline for paper submissions: 28 February 2026
• Notification of authors by 21 March 2026
• Registration: from 23 March until 30 April 2026

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.