Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2024   Call for papers We invite PhD students and early career economists to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2024. This year’s IPECE Workshop will be hosted by Technological University Dublin on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 January 2024. The workshop will be held in person in UCD’s Belfield Campus. There is no registration fee for the event. The workshop is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral, and early career researchers ..read more

The IEA Conference was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Athlone on 4-5 May 2023. The keynote speakers were Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Klaus Adams (University of Mannheim). Over 180 people were in attendance, with 75 full papers and 18 flash talks presented over the two days. This year introduced new ‘flash talk’ sessions primarily aimed at PhD students.  The Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) also organized an evening reception on 4 May. The annual IEA-ISWE 5km run took place on 5 May and had ~25 eager runners/walkers. Awards were made for the Connifee, Novartis, ISWE, & ESR priz ..read more

The Annual IEA Conference will take place on the 4th and 5th of May at the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. Submissions Submissions for the conference are open until 24 February 2023. Please click here to submit. Conference programme The 2023 programme will be available shortly (follow @IrishEconAssoc for updates). Previous IEA Conference resources (programmes and photos) are available on the dedicated pages below: IEA Annual Conference 2022 IEA Annual Conference 2021 ..read more

The IEA is delighted to announce the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2023 is coming up soon! When? Thursday 19-Friday 20 January 2023 Where? TU Dublin, Aungier Street The detailed programme is available here. Follow @IPECE2023 on Twitter for more ..read more

The International Economic Association (IEA) and Universidad EAFIT Colombia are pleased to announce the 20th World Congress of IEA to be held in Medellin, Colombia between 11 and 15 December 2023. The congress is jointly organized by IEA and Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, with Universidad EAFIT being the local host. The International Economic Association (IEA) is the association of the economic associations from around the world, and is the unique international organization that brings together economists from developed and developing countries across a broad range of fields. The Congress will ..read more

The IEA is delighted to announce the IEA Travel Grant Scheme 2022. The goal of the IEA Travel Grant Scheme is to aid in the dissemination and promotion of economic research by economists working on the island of Ireland. Total funding available per call (2 per year) is capped at €5,000 (all available funds may not be allocated). The maximum funding available per grant under the scheme is €1,000. More details about the Scheme and how to apply are available here.       ..read more

Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2023   Call for papers We invite PhD students and early career economists to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2023. This year’s IPECE Workshop will be hosted by Technological University Dublin on 19 and 20 January 2023. The workshop will be held in person in TU Dublin, City Campus, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. There is no registration fee for the event. The workshop is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral, and early career re ..read more

At this year’s annual IEA Conference (held on 4-5 May 2022), the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) was delighted to present the inaugural ISWE Prize for Best Paper by a Woman Economist to Eugenia Frezza of Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Congratulations to Eugenia from all at the IEA and ISWE! [Dr. Oana Peia (Left), Assistant Professor, University College Dublin presenting the award to Eugenia (Right), PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin]   A summary of Eugenia’s award-winning paper is presented below (and downloadable here).   Fast Internet and Gender Norms: Evidence from S ..read more

The Annual IEA Conference took place at the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick on 4-5 May 2022. Over 70 papers were presented in 21 sessions over the two days. Keynote speakers Sandra Black (Columbia) and Silvana Tenreyro (LSE and Bank of England) participated remotely. Many thanks to the local organisers, UL, and Dónal Palcic in particular, for the expert organisation of the event. The conference programme can be found here. Photo highlights of the conference are below.   Kickoff session at IEA 2022!   Congratulations to Irene Mosca and Anne Nolan on winning the 2022 Novartis prize ..read more

The IEA is delighted to promote this exciting Workshop (and associated Call for Papers) on ‘The Economics and History of Health Crises’. This Workshop will be held in Belfast in May 2022. The below text was supplied by IEA Member Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).   About 26-27 May 2022 Interdisciplinary Workshop ‘The Economics and History of Health Crises’ The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a vast expansion in academic research output into health crises. But most of this research is conducted by scholars within their disciplinary silos. Discipline-specific language and publishing norms m ..read more