Calls for papers

I keep this list for colleagues deciding where to send a paper. It covers recurring conferences in macroeconomics and general economics, including those run by central banks, grouped by the month each one usually takes place, with the month submissions usually close. Dates move from year to year, so check the current call before you plan around it. Research visits and fellowships at central banks are listed at the end. Last checked in September 2026; if a link breaks, please let me know.

For new calls, check INOMICS and Conference Maker every few weeks. INOMICS lists economics conferences of every kind and quality varies, so look at who organises a meeting before you pay a fee. Conference Maker shows the meetings that take submissions through it and whether each is accepting papers now.

Conferences by month

February

• CESEEnet Workshop: 5th workshop in February 2027, Prague (a network of the Czech, Latvian, Slovak and Austrian central banks); the 2027 call closes on 15 November 2026 (research on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe)

March

• Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE) Annual Symposium: March, host changes each year; submissions usually close in October of the year before

April

• ifo Dresden Workshop on Macroeconomics and International Finance: April, Dresden; submissions usually close in January (no fee)

• Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference: April; submissions usually close in early November of the year before (prize for PhD students and recent PhDs)

May

• ASECU International Conference: April or May in recent years (September in some years), host university changes each year; submissions usually close in early April

• Irish Economic Association Annual Conference: early May; submissions usually close in late January or early February (short flash talks for work in progress)

• Vienna Global Macro Workshop: spring (May in 2025 and 2026), host changes each year; the 2026 call closed on 1 February (no fee)

• Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, spring meeting: mid-May, host changes each meeting; submissions usually close in mid-February

• Bank of England BEAR research conference: once a year in London (May in 2026, February in 2024); the 2026 call closed on 15 February (some travel support for academic speakers)

• EAYE Annual Meeting (formerly the Spring Meeting of Young Economists): May; submissions usually close in November or December of the year before (for early-career economists)

• Baltic Central Banks' Invited Lecture Series: a short course plus a research workshop run by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian central banks (Riga, May 2025); the 2025 call closed on 28 February (presenting a paper is required to attend the course)

• Ghent University Workshop on Empirical Macroeconomics: May, Ghent; submissions usually close in early April (some travel support for presenters without funding)

• Young Economists' Meeting (YEM): late May, Brno; submissions usually close in February (mostly PhD students; applied, labour and behavioural work)

• International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (ICMAIF): late May, Rethymno, Crete; submissions usually close on 31 December of the year before

• RCEA International Conference in Economics, Econometrics and Finance: late May or early June; submissions usually close in March

June

• Nordic Econometric Meeting: every two years (early June 2026, Helsinki); the 2026 call closed on 28 February

• International Workshop on Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics (FMND): late May or early June, Paris; the 2026 call closed on 28 February (full papers only; selected papers are considered for journal special issues)

• Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) Annual Congress: June; submissions usually close in late January

• French Economic Association (AFSE) Annual Congress: June; submissions usually close in February (AFSE membership needed to submit in 2026)

• Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum: June, Barcelona; submissions usually close at the end of February (about 40 separate workshops, each with its own call; no fee)

• EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in Europe: June; submissions usually close in February or March

• Applied Economics Meeting (Encuentro de Economía Aplicada): June, Spain; submissions usually close in early March

• Conference on International Economics (AEEFI): June (late May in 2026), Spain; submissions usually close in February or March (PhD sessions in 2026)

• European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS) Annual Conference: June; submissions usually close in mid-March for early decisions or mid-April

• INFER Annual Conference: June or September (it alternates); submissions usually close in March (PhD sessions accept early work)

• China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM): June, host changes each year; submissions usually close between late February and mid-March

• Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, China: late June; submissions usually close in February (one author must be an Econometric Society member; not held in World Congress years)

• Baltic Economic Conference: June, Riga, Tallinn or Vilnius; submissions usually close in mid-March (prize for the best PhD-student paper)

• Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Council for Economic Analyses: late June, Sofia; the 2026 call closed on 1 March

• Banca d'Italia Annual Research Conference on Monetary Policy: June, Rome (since 2025); the 2026 call closed on 3 February

• Workshop on Macroeconomic Research, Kraków University of Economics: late June, Kraków; submissions usually close at the end of April (young economists especially welcome)

• International Ioannina Meeting on Applied Economics and Finance (IMAEF): June, every two years (even years), on a Greek island; submissions usually close in January or February

• International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB) Annual Research Conference: late June or early July, host central bank changes; submissions usually close in February (one theme each year)

• ECB Forum on Central Banking, Young Economists' Competition: late June or early July, Sintra; the 2026 call closed on 2 March (PhD students only; €10,000 prize)

• Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting: late June or early July; submissions usually close in mid-February

• Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF), Society for Computational Economics: late June or early July; submissions usually close in early March (graduate student paper prize)

• International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance (GdRE): late June or early July, France; submissions usually close in February, often extended into March

• Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM): late June or early July, Warsaw; submissions usually close in late April or early May (prize for young economists)

• Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Conference: late June or early July (it was in March or April until 2024); submissions usually close in mid-January, and in mid-April for speed and poster sessions (no fee or membership needed to submit)

July

• Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal: early July, Portugal; submissions usually close in mid-March

• Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Vigo: July (late June in 2026); the 2026 call closed on 5 April (mainly for job-market PhD students at European institutions)

• EcoMod International Conference on Economic Modeling and Data Science: usually July, sometimes September; submissions usually close between late January and mid-February

• Banco Central de Reserva del Perú Annual Research Conference: held every year (the 44th was in July 2026, Lima); the 2026 call closed on 25 May

• Australian Conference of Economists: July; submissions usually close in April

• Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) Annual Meeting: between June and August; submissions usually close in March (poster session for early-career economists)

• Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory: late July or early August, Minneapolis; the 2026 call closed on 24 April

• Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, East and Southeast Asia: late July or early August; submissions usually close between January and April, depending on the year (one author must be an Econometric Society member; not held in World Congress years)

• Singapore Economic Review Conference: late July or early August, every two years (even years); submissions usually close in April or May

August

• Lisbon Macro Workshop: late August, Lisbon; submissions usually close in spring (29 March in 2026)

• European Economic Association Congress (EEA-ESEM): late August; submissions usually close in late February (full papers only; EEA or Econometric Society membership needed)

September

• Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF) Annual Conference: early September, UK; submissions usually close in late April or May (MMF also runs a PhD conference in spring)

• German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) Annual Conference: mid to late September; submissions usually close on 1 March (the open call is for the Open Meeting sessions)

• Joint Danmarks Nationalbank, Deutsche Bundesbank and Norges Bank conference: usually September or October, host rotates among the three banks; the 2026 call closed on 15 March (travel and hotel for academics, up to a cap)

October

• Swiss National Bank Research Conference: late September or early October, Zurich; the 2026 call closed on 12 March (travel and hotel covered for academic presenters)

• ECB Conference on Monetary Policy: once a year since 2020, Frankfurt (October in 2026); the 2026 call, for its young economists' session, closed on 15 May (within five years of the PhD; travel and hotel covered for academic speakers)

• Italian Economic Association (SIE) Annual Conference: late October; submissions usually close at the end of April

• East Asian Economic Association Convention: October or November; submissions usually close in April or May

November

• CEMLA Central Bank Researchers Network annual meeting: November, host changes (Miami in 2025, Mexico City in 2026); the 2026 call closed on 4 September (no registration fee)

• South-Eastern European Economic Research Workshop, Bank of Albania: November (early December until 2023), Tirana; submissions usually close on 1 September (no fee)

• ECB Conference on Money Markets: November, Frankfurt; the 2026 call closed on 31 May (travel and hotel covered for academic speakers)

• Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group (CMSG) Annual Meeting: November; submissions usually close on 31 May

• De Nederlandsche Bank Annual Research Conference: November, Amsterdam; submissions usually close at the end of August (a different theme each year)

• Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, fall meeting: usually November; submissions usually close between mid-August and early September

• Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting: second half of November, United States; the 2026 call closed on 1 April (PhD programmes can nominate a job-market student)

• IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop: late November or early December, Halle; submissions usually close on 30 September (a different theme each year)

December

• Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy: December, Prague (since 2024); the 2026 call closed in September (academics can ask for travel and hotel costs)

• Workshop on Empirical Monetary Economics: December, Paris; submissions usually close on 15 September (full paper needed; no fee)

• European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society: December; submissions usually close in early September (aimed at job-market PhD students, open to all)

• Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Conference: every two years, usually mid-December (June in 2026, Macau); the 2026 call ran from late January to 10 April

• Spanish Economic Association Symposium (SAEe): mid-December; submissions usually close in mid-June (support for PhD students' fees)

Central bank event pages

Central banks also run one-off conferences with open calls. They are announced on pages like these:

• European Central Bank: conferences and calls

• Bank of England: events

• Deutsche Bundesbank: research conferences

• Norges Bank: research conferences

• Czech National Bank: conferences, seminars and workshops

• Banco Central do Brasil: conferences, seminars and workshops

• CEMLA (Latin American central banks)

Research visits and fellowships

These central banks, and the BIS, take applications from outside researchers:

• Houblon-Norman and George Fellowships, Bank of England: researchers at any career stage spend one month to a year at the Bank, with allowances for travel and accommodation; applications for 2027/28 open in autumn 2026

• Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship, ECB: senior researchers spend two to six months at the ECB in Frankfurt; the 2026 call, for visits in 2027, closed on 30 June

• Lamfalussy Fellowship, ECB: for researchers aged 36 or under, such as assistant professors and advanced PhD students, working on the European financial system; €10,000, with the call published each December

• Research visits, Deutsche Bundesbank: experienced researchers, including postdocs, email a research proposal, cover letter and CV to the Research Centre; no fixed deadline is given

• Visiting Scholars, Central Bank of Ireland: established researchers visit for about a week, with travel and accommodation covered; the call for 2027 visits closed on 26 June 2026

• Visiting Researchers Programme, BOFIT (Bank of Finland): researchers with a PhD spend three to four weeks in Helsinki working on emerging markets, especially China, Russia and India, paid a salary plus one return trip; the call for spring and summer 2027 closes on 4 October 2026

• Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship, Oesterreichische Nationalbank: for researchers with postdoctoral experience to work with the OeNB's research department; applications are due by the end of October 2026

• Research fellowships, Bank for International Settlements: established economists visit Basel for a few days to several weeks, with an honorarium, travel and accommodation (apply by 31 March each year); the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship, up to three months, takes applications all year, and the BIS PhD Fellowship Programme offers paid stays of three to eleven months