The IEA Annual Conference is the highlight of the Association’s activities and takes place in early May at different locations around Ireland.
The Annual conference features two international plenary lectures – the Edgeworth Lecture and the ESR Lecture – as well as a number of invited and contributed paper sessions. Each year we award a number of prizes including the Denis Conniffe prize for the best paper by a young economist, the Brendan Walsh prize for the best paper published in the Economic and Social Review, the Novartis prize for the best health economics paper, and the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) prize for the best paper presented by a women economist.
The first conference took place in 1986, and since then, continues to grow in popularity attracting both national and international economists.
Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2026
The 39th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organised by the Central Bank of Ireland and will be held at the Anner Hotel, Dublin Road, Thurles Townparks, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41 X789 on Thursday 7 May – Friday 8 May 2026.
The keynote speakers will be confirmed closer to the date.
Submissions to the conference are invited:
- Full presentations: These are 25 minutes in length and require the submission of a full paper by the presenter.
- 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.
- 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.
The deadline for all submissions is 23 January 2026.
Submissions can be made via the conference website: iea2026.exordo.com
Programme
TBC
Contact
Email the organisers at mpol@centralbank.ie