Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 7th Baltic Economic Conference that will take place on June 26-27, 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Baltic Economic Conference is organized by the Baltic Economic Association in cooperation with Lietuvos Bankas and ISM University of Management and Economics.

 

We welcome full-length paper submissions from all fields of economics and finance. Baltic Economic Conference is a general economic conference and papers on a wide variety of topics will be included in the program. In addition to the regular sessions, the conference will feature two special sessions on the following topics:

 

We intend to accept around 40-45 papers to the conference. Each paper will be assigned a discussant. Authors of accepted papers implicitly agree to be a discussant of another paper.

 

Keynote Speaker: Luigi Guiso (AXA Professor of Household Finance at Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)

Luigi Guiso is the AXA Professor of Household Finance at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Rome. He has held positions at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the European University Institute in Florence. He has directed the Finance Programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London and taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University, and Imperial College. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association. Besides his work in the field of household finance, he has contributed research to labor economics, firm investments and financial decisions, entrepreneurship and banking, political economy and institutions, and in the field of culture and economics. His research has been published in major scholarly journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review and Econometrica.

 

Submissions

Please submit your papers at: https://www.conftool.pro/bec2025/ 

 

Important dates

·        March 15: Deadline for submissions

·        April 15: Decisions on submissions

·        April 30: Registration deadline

 

Award for the Best Paper Presented by a PhD Student

Baltic Economic Association prize of €500 will be awarded to the best paper presented by a PhD student. The candidates for the award are not limited to the Baltic region.


Conference Fees

The conference fee is €75. There is no submission fee.

Conference fee does not apply to the faculty and employees of the institutional members of the Baltic Economic Association and the graduate students of institutions in the Baltic States.

Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses.

 

Program Committee Chair: Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore)

 

Program Committee: Meda Andrijauskienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Audinga Baltrūnaitė (Bank of Italy), Konstantins Benkovskis (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Latvijas Banka), Simonas Čepėnas (ISM University of Management and Economics), Ludmila Fadejeva (Latvijas Banka), Nicolas Gavoille (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Latvijas Banka), Boris Ginzburg (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Tomas Jankauskas (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Karin Jõeveer (Tallinn University of Technology), Dmitry Kulikov (Eesti Pank), Povilas Lastauskas (International Monetary Fund), Natalia Levenko (Tallinn University of Technology and Eesti Pank), Karolis Liaudinskas (Norges Bank), Jūra Liaukonytė (Cornell University), Kadri Männasoo (Tallinn University of Technology), Jaan Masso (Tartu University), Jaanika Meriküll (Eesti Pank and Tartu University), Kaire Põder (Estonian Business School), Swapnil Singh (Lietuvos Bankas and Kaunas University of Technology), Janis Skrastinš (Washington University in St. Louis), Ovidijus Stauskas (BI Norwegian Business School), Jonas Striaukas (Copenhagen Business School), Ija Trapeznikova (Royal Holloway), Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University), Priit Vahter (Tartu University), Vytautas Valaitis (University of Surrey), Zane Vārpiņa (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga), Vincentas Vobolevičius (ISM University of Management and Economics), Anna Zasova (UNU-WIDER)

 

Organizers: Valdonė Darškuvienė (ISM University of Management and Economics), Daiva Dumčiuvienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Oļegs Matvejevs (Latvijas Banka), Aurelija Proškutė (Lietuvos Bankas), Tairi Rõõm (and Tallinn University of Technology  and Eesti Pank), Karsten Staehr (Tallinn University of Technology and Eesti Pank), Oļegs Tkačevs (Latvijas Banka), Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore)

 

Conference Venue

ISM University of Management and Economics, 7 Gedimino Avenue, Vilnius, Lithuania. On-site participation only.


 

More information is available at: https://conf2025.balticecon.org/