The Baltic Economic Association
Promoting Economics in the Baltic States since 2018
You are welcome to the TalTech Department of Economics and Finance research seminar “No Escape from Mismatch? Performance Pay and the Persistence of Overeducation Penalties in Europe“.
The seminar will take place on 4th of February, from 16:00 to 17:00 in room SOC-460 and in MS Teams (LINK).
Presenter: Simona Ferraro (Department of Economics and Finance, TalTech)
See here for more info.
You are welcome to the School of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tartu research seminar “Private Health Insurance under Universal Coverage: Balancing Efficiency and Equity“.
The seminar will take place on 17 February, from 11:00 to 12:00 via Zoom (LINK).
Presenter: David Seim (Stockholm University)
Visit this website for more details.
You are welcome to the School of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tartu research seminar “Licence to Innovate: Individual Support for Private-Sector Use of Biobank Data. Evidence from Estonian Public Opinion surveys 2022-2025“.
The seminar will take place on 11 February, from 14:00 to 15:00 at Narva Rd 18 – 1024 and Zoom.
Presenter: Kristjan Vassil (University of Tartu)
Visit this website for more details and the Zoom link.
Submissions are invited for the 19th Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), taking place on July 16-18, 2026, at the University of Barcelona.
Individual paper abstracts (max. 200 words) and panel proposals (3-4 presentations on a similar theme – an abstract of max. 300 words introducing the panel and individual paper abstracts of max. 200 words per each paper in the panel) are welcome and should be submitted by the March 31, 2026.
Submission deadline: 31 March 2026
Conference fee (early bird): 310 EUR
The full call for papers is accessible here.
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 (UCL), Lutz Kilian (Dallas Fed)
Conference fee: 90 EUR.
On December 8, University of Tartu organises the International Delta Trends Day, the theme of which this time is “Hybrid security learning and action at Europe’s eastern border”.
Top minds are coming together to ignite bold conversations on the future of security, resilience, defense, and economic stability—globally, across Europe, and right here in Estonia. These dynamic discussions are fueled by the University of Tartu’s powerhouse initiatives: the Delta Management School and CDL-Estonia, both driving fresh thinking and strategic action in a world that’s changing faster than ever.
Delta Trends Day 2025 covers:
For more information, visit the event’s webpage: https://deltaschool.ut.ee/en/events/deltatrendsday2025/
On December 5th from 10 AM to 12 PM, you are welcome to join (only in person) a workshop at the Kaunas University of Technology.
Dr. Swapnil Singh will lead a workshop called “Reproducible Research“.
Location:
Kaunas University of Technology
School of Economics and Business
Conference Centre
Gedimino g. 50-214, LT-44239 Kaunas
Description: This seminar introduces to the principles and practice of reproducible research. The focus will be on using GitHub for version control, Markdown for transparent documentation, and hands-on exercises that combine these tools in a practical mini-project.
You are welcome to join on 2 December, Tuesday between 10.00-11.00 [Estonian Time] for a research seminar by Tiit Elenurm.
Title: Custom ChatGPT application in entrepreneurship learning and research
Location: EBS room 224 and MS Teams (LINK)
Please be invited to an upcoming Latvijas Banka Research seminar on methods and implementation of optimal policy projections held by Thomas Dengler from Deutsche Bundesbank. More information will follow soon.
Title: Optimal Policy Projections – Methods and Implementation
Time: 4 December 2025 10:30-12:00
Venue: Latvijas Banka’s Lielā sēžu zāle (223-2A) and MS Teams (LINK).
You are welcome to the Department of Economics and Finance research seminar “Stress-testing Australian Mortgagors“.
The seminar will take place on the 10th of December, from 16:00 to 17:00 in room SOC-460 and in MS Teams (LINK).
Presenter: Benjamin Beckers (Reserve Bank of Australia)
Authors:
Benjamin Beckers – Reserve Bank of Australia
Amelia Gao – Reserve Bank of Australia
Abstract: How resilient indebted households are to adverse macroeconomic shocks has implications for financial stability risks in Australia, given household loans account for around two-thirds of Australian banks’ lending. In this paper, we develop a novel household-level stress-testing model that is now used regularly to support the Reserve Bank’s assessment of financial stability risks arising from mortgage debt in Australia. The model uses rich loan-level data from the Securitisation System which allows to stress-test around one third of all Australian borrowers’ ability to service their debts under different macroeconomic scenarios. Extending earlier Australian household stress-testing models, a key feature of our model is that we explicitly account for the liquid savings buffers that most Australian mortgagors hold in offset and redraw accounts. We illustrate how the model is used by Reserve Bank staff to support the assessment of banks’ credit risks by running three hypothetical macroeconomic scenarios. We demonstrate that accounting for borrowers’ savings buffers from mortgage prepayments can almost halve the estimated expected credit losses faced by lenders in a severe macroeconomic shock. Our model can also shed a light on the distribution of budget pressures faced by different mortgagor households as a result of financial or economic shocks.