8th Baltic Economic Conference (BEC 2026)

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: "Challenges of Growth, Competitiveness and Resilience in Europe" and "International Trade and Its Disruptions: Contemporary Micro and Macroeconomic Perspectives".

For the first time, the Baltic Economic Conference will feature special issues of two journals: Economic Modelling and the Baltic Journal of Economics. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit their papers and benefit from a fast-track review process while maintaining the journals’ rigorous peer-review standards.

We welcome papers from all around the world. Usually more than 50% of papers presented at the conference are authored by researchers from outside the Baltics. We intend to accept around 50 papers to the conference. Each paper will be assigned a discussant. Authors of accepted papers implicitly agree to discuss another paper.

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

Baltic Economic Association prize of €1000 will be awarded to the best paper presented by a PhD student. The candidates for the award are not limited to the Baltic region.

Keynote Speaker: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, a native of Ukraine and Quantedge Presidential professor at the Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley. He is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and holds positions and NBER, CEPR, and IZA. Yuriy’s research has been published in top economics journals and concerns monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (its long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles.  He regularly comments on topical global issues.

Program Committee Chairs: Oļegs Matvejevs and Oļegs Tkačevs (both Latvijas Banka)

Organizers: Oļegs Matvejevs (Latvijas Banka), Aurelija Proškutė (Lietuvos Bankas), Tairi Rõõm (Eesti Pank and Tallinn University of Technology), Karsten Staehr (Tallinn University of Technology and Eesti Pank), Oļegs Tkačevs (Latvijas Banka), Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore)

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

In case of any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by email: conference@balticecon.org 

For more information see https://conf2025.balticecon.org/

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