Call for Papers

The 5th ENEAR Conference will take place in Bern, Switzerland on Thursday June 25 and Friday June 26, 2026. 

The confirmed plenary speakers are Anne Farrell (Miami University) and Brian White (Cornell University).

We invite experimental papers from all of subfields of accounting, including auditing, financial accounting, management accounting, accounting information systems, and tax.

Discussants from the community will be invited to discuss each paper.

As in previous years, we will also accept proposals for experiments that have not yet been conducted (see here for some brief guidelines). 

We also organize a doctoral colloquium during which students get feedback on their proposals or papers.

Practicalities

Submission

To submit a paper for the conference, please follow this link.

Please submit your paper as PDF file, including a title page with the names and affiliations of all co-authors. 

The submission deadline is February 28, 2026.

To encourage interaction among participants, a maximum of around 60 submissions will be accepted for presentation. 

The organization committee will inform authors about their decision by April 15, 2026.

PhD students who want to submit their paper to the colloquium will need to indicate this during the submission process. Please note that, as a PhD student, you can submit your paper to either the doctoral colloquium or the main conference, but not both.

Date

The PhD colloquium takes place on Thursday, June 25 in the morning. The conference will start around noon on Thursday, June 25 and will end in the late afternoon of Friday, June 26. There will be an informal early bird reception on the evening of Wednesday, June 24.

Venue:

University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Registration

Registration for the conference will open soon – we will announce this via email and on the ENEAR website. The registration fee (250 CHF) includes access to accepted papers, refreshments, lunch, dinner, closing drinks and snacks, and for PhD students the participation in the doctoral colloquium. There will be a limited number of travel grants of 400 CHF for PhD students participating in the doctoral colloquium. In case you want to apply for a travel grant, you will have to do so separately from the submission process. We will publish information on the process soon on the ENEAR website.

The number of participants who can register is limited, for both the conference and the doctoral colloquium, so we encourage early registration. The deadline for registration will be May 20, 2026.

Please forward this call for papers to anyone you think might be interested in the conference!