Call for Papers
SEA–NOeG Joint Conference 2026
“Economy and Democracy”
September 11-12, 2026, Central European University, Vienna
The annual meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) 2026 will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the Slovak Economic Association (SEA). Democracies worldwide are confronting pressures that increasingly limit their capacity to deliver accountability, stability, and long-term policy coherence. These conditions have been amplified by major geopolitical shocks and have fueled the rise of populism. Over the last decades, economic research has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of democracy by addressing it as a system of incentives, strategic interaction, and information aggregation. The organizers invite submissions on related topics, as well as from all areas of economics including macroeconomics, economic development and growth, environmental and ecological economics, resource and agriculture economics, labor and demographic economics, microeconomics and industrial organization, urban and regional economics, etc.
Keynote speakers
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Claudia Senik Sorbonne University Paris School of Economics |
Ruben Enikolopov Barcelona School of Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Submission
We invite full papers or extended abstracts on the conference topic as well as all other fields of economics to be submitted until June 7, 2026, via https://www.conftool.com/noeg-2026/. We further invite the submission of organized sessions (four papers related to a common topic) from all fields in economics until June 7, 2026. Notification regarding acceptance will be sent out by July 5, 2026.
Young Economist Award
The Austrian Economic Association and the Slovak Economic Association each offer a prize of EUR 750 for outstanding papers – to be presented at the conference – by economists up to the age of 35 years. For joint papers, this age limit holds for all co-authors. Please indicate your eligibility for the award on the submission website. Each paper can be considered under only one award scheme.
Women in Economics Aperitif
A networking aperitif for female economists at all career stages will take place during the conference. The event aims to provide networking opportunities and a space to discuss additional obstacles underrepresented groups face in the profession.
Registration
Please register for the conference by July 31, 2026 the latest. Registration will be possible from July 1, 2026. The conference fee amounts to EUR 200. There is a reduced conference fee of EUR 120 for NOeG members and EUR 60 for (presenting) PhD students (NOeG membership is EUR 55 per year – see https://www.noeg.ac.at/membership). PhD students from Slovakia or PhD students affiliated with Slovak universities may apply for a fee waiver when presenting their work at the conference. The waiver is conditional on acceptance of the paper. Applicants must contact the Slovak Economic Association at sea@slovakecon.sk to confirm their PhD status and justify their request for a fee waiver. Approved applicants will be exempt from the conference fee.
After peer-review, accepted papers may be published in a special conference issue of Empirica: Journal of European Economics or Journal of Economics (Ekonomický časopis). In case you would like your paper to be considered for the special issues, please indicate this on the submission website.
Please visit the NOeG 2026 CEU website for further information.
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