Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 8th Baltic Economic Conference that will take place on June 25-26, 2026 in Riga, Latvia. The Baltic Economic Conference is organized by the Baltic Economic Association in cooperation with Latvijas Banka and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

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

• 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 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.

Keynote Speaker: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California – Berkeley)

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, a native of Ukraine, is 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.

Conference Venue

Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strēlnieku 4A, Riga, Latvia. On-site participation only.

Important dates

·        March 15: Deadline for submissions

·        April 20: Decisions on submissions

·        May 8: Registration deadline

Submissions

Please submit your papers at: https://www.conftool.pro/bec2026/

Award for the Best Paper Presented by a PhD Student

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.

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 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).

More information is available at: https://conf2026.balticecon.org/