Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2025: Call for Papers

The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday, May 8th to Friday, May 9th, 2025.

The keynote speakers are Professor John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, and Professor Renée Adams, Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Preconference activities will also be held at the conference venue on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. Dr. Florian Oswald, Data Editor for the Economic Journal and Associate Professor in Economics at Sciences Po, will conduct practical sessions on replication policies.  Romesh Vaitilingam, Editor-in-Chief of the Economics Observatory, member of the editorial board of Vox, writer, and communications consultant, will lead a session on “Making Research Matter.”

Three types of submissions to the conference are invited:

  1. Full presentations: These are 25 minutes in length and require the submission of a full paper by the presenter.
  2. Short presentations (Flash Talks): These are 10 minutes in length, can be work-in-progress, and require the submission of either an extended abstract (approximately 2 pages) or an early draft paper. While short presentations are primarily aimed at providing early career researchers with an opportunity to present their work and develop their conference experience and skills, these sessions are also open to more experienced researchers who wish to present early-stage work and/or give a shorter presentation.
  3. Organised sessions: These are full sessions of 1.5 hours on a specific topic or area and are a new initiative at the IEA conference. Proposals for organised sessions must be submitted by one person (i.e., the organiser), and the session should include at least 3, but no more than 4, papers to be presented. One submission should be made by the organiser, including extended abstracts and/or full papers for each presentation, along with a one-page overview and description of the organised session. The inclusion of at least one discussant is encouraged.

The deadline for all submissions is midnight on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. Submissions can be made via the conference website:

https://iea2025.exordo.com/

Please note that no author-identifying information should be included in any uploaded file(s) (i.e., papers, extended abstracts, or organised session proposals).

Several prizes will be awarded at the conference, including the Denis Conniffe Prize for best paper by a young economist, the Brendan Walsh Prize for best paper published in the Economic and Social Review, the Novartis Prize for best health economics paper, and the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) Prize for best paper presented by a woman economist.

Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2025

9th and 10th of January 2025, University College Cork

Call for papers

Early-career economists and PhD students are invited to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2025.

This year’s IPECE Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Economics in University College Cork on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2025. The workshop will be held in person in the Aras na Laoi building in UCC. There is no registration fee for the event.

The workshop is aimed at postdoctoral and early-career researchers, and PhD students. The meeting will provide an excellent opportunity to engage with research results and work-in-progress in a welcoming and constructive environment. We encourage those working on economics research, based on the island of Ireland, to attend. The workshop will also include training and keynote sessions aimed at early-career economists.

Submissions

Please submit your extended abstracts or full research papers as a pdf file by Tuesday  November 26th to ipece.workshop@gmail.com. Please include JEL codes in and a short CV with your submission.

Important dates

  • Submission deadline: 26th November, 2024
  • Decisions, invitations to the workshop, and registration details: Early-December 2024
  • Workshop: 9-10th January, 2025

The financial support of the Irish Economic Association and the Department of Economics in UCC is appreciated.

Call for Papers: Economics Winter Workshop, Central Bank

  • Submission Deadline: 30th September 2023
  • Notification Date: 15th October 2023
  • Event Date: 21st December 2023, 08.30-17:00
  • Format: In person
  • Venue: Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin
  • Registration: Details TBC

Central Bank of Ireland will host the inaugural “Economics Winter Workshop” in Dublin on 21 December 2023. We aim to provide an annual forum for economists, both domestic and foreign-based, to connect and discuss current issues within our Research Agenda. This covers a wide range of topics, including many new as well as long-standing issues relevant to small open economies with complex financial systems. Such engagement enhances the quality of our policy decisions and advice, through the creation of networks that foster collaboration and facilitate challenge. 

We will select approximately five to eight papers, with a discussant for each to facilitate wider participation. Selection will balance seniority and topic, aiming for a diverse representation. While it is expected participants will cover their own costs, there is some funding available upon application. The event will also feature a keynote lecture by Kevin O’Rourke and a policy panel with Philip Lane, Martina Lawless, Niamh Moloney and Michael McMahon. 

We invite submissions before September 30 and will notify authors before October 15. The programme committee comprises of Daragh Clancy, Gillian Phelan, Martin O’Brien and Gerard O’Reilly. 

This event is in person. For submissions, and in case of any questions, please email researchexchange@centralbank.ie with “Economics Winter Workshop” in the subject line. 

Confirmed Speakers:

  • Philip Lane, Chief Economist, European Central Bank
  • Martina Lawless, Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute
  • Niamh Moloney, Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Michael McMahon, Professor of Economics, Oxford University
  • Kevin O’Rourke, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi

Tenure Status in Census 2022

The CSO have started releasing the results from Census 2022. Reports on selected topics will be published over the next year. The summary results for each topic are available here.

The release includes details of tenure status by household which are shown below for each Census since 1981.

In Census 2022, the number of households increased to 1.84 million from 1.68 million in Census 2016. Average household size was largely unchanged (2.74 versus 2.75 in 2016).

The number of households who are homeowners rose from 1.15 million in 2016 to 1.21 million in 2022. This increase was entirely due to an increase in the number of outright owners without a mortgage which increased from 612 thousand to 680 thousand. There was a small decline in the number of homeowners with a mortgage, despite rising mortgage drawdowns by first-time buyers.

In overall terms, the homeownership rate declined from 67.6 per cent to 65.9 per cent. It should be noted though that the share of household forms where the tenure status was not stated was 4.4 per cent in 2022. This is up from 3.1 per cent in 2016 and just 0.4 per cent in 1981.

Excluding households who do not state their tenure status the homeownership rate declined from 69.8 per cent in 2016 to 68.9 per cent in 2022.

The number of households renting from a private landlord increased to 331 thousand in 2022 from 310 thousand in 2016. The private renting rate was essentially unchanged (with this particularly so if ‘not stated’ are excluded). This increase in households renting privately showing in the Census is in contrast to other sources showing a decline, such as RTB registrations.

The only significant tenure status showing an increase are those renting social housing. The number of households renting from a local authority or approved housing body rose from 160 thousand in 2016 to 183 thousand in 2022, representing 10 per cent of households.

More detailed results, including breakdowns by age, nationality and other characteristics, will be published at the end of July.

Are all economists just focused on growth?

Dr Emma Howard of TUDublin, and chair of the Irish Society of Women in Economics (ISWE), has an opinion piece on TheJournal.ie examining the practice of economics and the work of some of her colleagues in Ireland. You can read it here.

Readers may also be interested to note that at the recent AGM of the Irish Economic Association, a motion was unanimously passed to make ISWE a standing committee within the IEA.