Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2025
Queen’s University Belfast
8-9 May 2025
About
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 8 May to Friday 9 May 2025 (with pre-conference events on Wednesday, 7 May). The keynote speakers are Professor John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College 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.”
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.
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.”
Programme
Download the (draft) Programme here.
Contact
If you have any questions, contact the conference organisers at iea2025@qub.ac.uk