15th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research

The Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research, hosted by Lietuvos bankas, will take place on 23 December 2026. This one-day conference takes place every year around Christmas and provides a forum for Lithuanian Economists and their friends to meet.

Important dates:

September 16: Open submissions
November 1: Deadline for submissions
November 22: Decisions on submissions
December 18: Registration deadline for participants
December 23: Conference

Call for papers

We are happy to invite paper submissions for the 15th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research hosted by Lietuvos bankas that will take place on December 23, 2026, in Vilnius, Lithuania. This one-day conference takes place every year around Christmas and provides a forum for Lithuanian Economists and their friends to meet.

We are looking for well-defined research ideas that could benefit from the interactions in a collegial setting. We especially welcome submissions by PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. The conference will cover a broad range of topics in theoretical and empirical economics, including but not restricted to macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial economics, labour economics, and political economy.

Submission

Please submit full papers or extended abstracts using the following form. The deadline for paper submissions is November 1, 2026. The submitting authors will be notified by November 22, 2026.

Logistics

The conference will be held in person. The working language of the meeting is English. The conference is also open to researchers who do not plan to present a paper.

Organizers

Žymantas Budrys (Lietuvos bankas, Vilnius University), Eglė Karmazienė (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Ovidijus Stauskas (BI Norwegian Business School), Aurelija Proškutė (Lietuvos Bankas), Linas Tarasonis (Lietuvos bankas, Vilnius University), Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore)

Program

TBA

Previous year's program

Venue

The conference will take place at Lietuvos Bankas, the central bank of Lithuania.

Address: Totorių g. 4, 01121 Vilnius

Registration

The conference is also open to researchers who do not plan to present a paper. We especially welcome the Lithuanian and Baltic economics community: postgraduate students, professors, independent experts, economic journalists and government officials. Those researchers should sign up using the form by December 18.

Past meetings

2025 Winter Meeting was hosted by Vilnius University (Website, Program)

2024 Winter Meeting was hosted by Lietuvos bankas (Website, Program)

2023 Winter Meeting was hosted by ISM University of Management and Economics (Website, Program)

2022 Winter Meeting was hosted by Lietuvos bankas (Website, Program)

2021 Winter Meeting was held online (Website, Program)

2020 Winter Meeting was held online (Website, Program)

2019 Winter Meeting was hosted by Vilnius University (Website, Program)

2018 Meeting was organized jointly with the Inaugural Baltic Economic Conference and hosted by Lietuvos bankas and Vilnius University (Media)

2017 Meeting was hosted by Kaunas University of Technology (Media1, Media2)

2016 Meeting was hosted by ISM University of Management and Economics (Media1, Media2)

2015 Meeting was hosted by Vytautas Magnus University (Media1, Media2)

2014 Meeting was hosted by Vilnius University

2013 Meeting was hosted by ISM University of Management and Economics (Media)

2012 Meeting was hosted by Vilnius University (Website, Program, Media)

Contacts

For any questions related to the conference, please contact us at vilniusmeeting@gmail.com