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 2025
The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast. It 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 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.”
Programme
Download the (draft) Programme here.
Contact
If you have any questions, contact the conference organisers at iea2025@qub.ac.uk