Author: The Irish Economy

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.

Prof. Donal O’Neill R.I.P

On behalf of the Economics Department in Maynooth University.

We are greatly saddened by the news that our colleague in Maynooth’s Economics Department, Donal O’Neill, has died after a short illness. He was just 56.

Donal was a first-rate economist and published in many top journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Human Resources. He was an excellent, innovative teacher and a wonderful colleague. Donal’s main research fields were labour economics and inequality, but he also had a considerable interest in econometric methodology, which fed into his applied research. Among his many contributions to the Irish economics community, he served as president of the Irish Economic Association from 2014-16 and as an enthusiastic member of the inaugural Irish Low Wage Commission.

All of his work was marked by a real love of Economics – he never stopped being fascinated by the insights Economics offered, or by its potential as a force for good. Donal was also a very decent and kind person. He will be very sadly missed.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends, particularly with his wife, Olive Sweetman, also a member of Maynooth’s Economics Department.

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

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.