Programme Overview

This is a programme overview of EEA-ESEM 2026.

	Sun, Aug 16	Mon, Aug 17	Tues, Aug 18	Wed, Aug 19	Thurs, Aug 20	Fri, Aug 21
09:00 - 10:30		Registration  / EEA EJME Candidate Workshop & Workshops	Contributed III	EEA Presidential Address	ES Laffont Lecture	ES Lewis-Ostrom Lecture II & II
10:30 - 11:00		Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	WinE Mentoring Retreat  / External workshops	Contributed IV	Contributed VI	Contributed VIII
12:30 - 14:00	Opening Session	Lunch  /  Panel	Lunch  /  Panel	Lunch  /  ES Lewis-Ostrom Lecture I
14:00 - 15:30	Contributed I	Invited I	Invited II	Invited III
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Contributed II	Contributed V	Contributed VII	Contributed IX
17:30 - 17:45		Transfer Time	Transfer Time	Transfer Time	Transfer Time
17:45 - 19:00		EEA Marshall Lecture	ES Presidential Address	ES Fisher-Schultz Lecture	EEA Schumpeter Lecture
19:30 - 21:00		RSVP: Networking Event	Congress  Party

Awards & Calls

EEA

• Young Economist Award

The EEA bestows 3 Young Economist Awards to the authors (and all co-authors) no more than 3 years past a PhD defence of outstanding papers presented during contributed sessions of the EEA annual congress. When submitting papers, presenters who want to be considered for this award will have to click a box to indicate their interest and to certify that they are eligible.

The EEA thanks the UniCredit Foundation for its support of the Young Economist Award since 2016.

• MinE Best Paper Award

We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of the MinE Best Paper Award. If your paper’s focus is on the study of LGBTQ+, Race-Ethnicity-Religion and/or Disabilities and would like it to be considered for the MinE Best Paper Award, please tick the relevant box on the paper submission form. For the paper to be considered for the Award, it must be presented during EEA 2026.

• EEA SESSIONS ONLY Call for Papers Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Economics

The EEA Education Committee is excited to invite submissions for a special session dedicated to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Economics. The session is planned for the morning of August 17th 2026, the first day of the EEA Congress meeting in Dublin. This session aims to showcase and critically engage with research that advances our understanding of economics education at undergraduate and postgraduate level through systematic inquiry and evaluation. We welcome contributions that explore any aspect of teaching and learning in economics — including curriculum design, assessment, pedagogy, technology-enhanced learning, student engagement, equity and inclusion, and disciplinary identity — provided they go beyond description to include evaluation of practice.
Submissions may include:
 * Empirical studies of teaching interventions or innovations
 * Evaluative case studies of curriculum or assessment redesign
 * Quantitative or qualitative analyses of student learning outcomes
 * Reflections on pedagogical practice grounded in evidence
 * Meta-analyses or syntheses of SoTL literature in economics
To maximise the number of papers in the session we are looking for papers that can be presented in 10 mins, with 5 mins for questions from the room. This will allow up to six papers in the session. 
We welcome both work-in-progress and published work, provided the latter has not previously been presented at the EEA Congress. When submitting your paper, on your submission form, please choice the field SoTL for your 3 choices. 
This session is part of a broader effort to elevate the visibility and impact of SoTL within the economics discipline in Europe. We particularly encourage submissions from colleagues engaged in teaching-focused academic pathways, pedagogical leadership, and interdisciplinary approaches to economics education.

EEA SESSIONS ONLY Call for Papers / Sessions on Minorities in Economics (MinE) Sessions

In collaboration with the Minorities in Economics (MinE) Committee, the EEA welcomes submissions of papers and / or full contributed sessions dedicated to minorities-related topics - LGBTQ+, Race-Ethnicity-Religion, Disabilities in any field of research. We are especially interested in receiving papers researching discrimination analysis, theoretical or empirical, policy evaluation, public vs private sectors, education and labor market integration, equality of access and efficiency. When submitting your paper, there will be an option to choose these minorities-related topics as a subfield of each field.

ESEM

• Best applied papers by young researchers

2 prizes will be awarded for the best papers in applied economics (broadly taken to include applied theory, empirical economics, experimental economics, and computational economics, including both micro and macro approaches) presented by young researchers within 10 years of their PhD, i.e. with PhD awarded not earlier than January 1, 2016. When submitting papers, presenters who want to be considered for a prize will have to click a box to indicate their interest and to certify that they are eligible.