The 59th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association is hosted by the Department of Economics at l'Université du Québec à Montréal from May 29th to May 31st, 2025. A day of online sessions will take place on Friday, May 23rd, 2025. The programme chair is Huw Lloyd-Ellis (Queen's University), and the local organizers are Professor Marie Connolly and Professor Charles Séguin.
Preliminary Programme
HIGHLIGHTS
Programme highlights including State of the Art Lectures and special lectures are published on the Programme Highlights Page.
REGISTRATION
Conference Registration will open February 1, 2025 on the registration page.
LOCAL INFORMATION
For Air Travel Discount Codes, Group Hotel Rates and local details, see here.
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSIONS:
For past prize winners and submission details see the Undergraduate Student Research Awards page.
CLEF: AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS
Please see the Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) page here for further details.
EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION:
Exhibitors at the CEA Annual Conference are offered a prime location to meet with members of the Economics community of Canada and around the world. Registration Page for Exhibitors.
MEDIA INQUIRIES & COMPLIMENTARY PRESS PASSES
For details on complimentary media passes see the media page.
SESSION ORGANIZERS
Groups or individuals organizing sessions are asked to contact the program office at cea.execdir@gmail.com (Attn: Paula Emery) by January 31st. For further details, see the session organizers page.
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
Applications for Student Travel Grants will be available at the link below. Please read the criteria carefully before applying.
Travel Grant criteria:
- Travel grants are only available to qualifying graduate students and doctoral candidates who are paid-up members of the Canadian Economics Association.
- You must be a student at a Canadian university, or a Canadian citizen studying at a foreign university.
- You must have submitted a paper to the conference or are presenting in a special session to apply for a travel grant.
- Please submit your travel grant application before the deadline of March 15th, 2025
LINK FORTHCOMING
Productivity Partnership Travel Grants to the CEA
Please note that travel grants cannot be combined. Please identify if you have travel grants from other sources.
IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES
| December 2024 | The programme chair starts accepting submissions of papers for presentation at the conference through the web interface. |
| January 31, 2025 | Last day for prospective special session organizers to contact the program office for booking blocks of sessions. |
| February 1, 2025 | Advance registration for the conference commences. |
| February, 2025 | Deadline to submit your paper or abstract. |
| March 14, 2025 | Last day for travel grant applications to be submitted to the CEA. |
| March 14, 2025 | Last day for notifying paper submitter on the acceptance or rejection of their paper for presentation. |
| April 4, 2025 | Last day for presenters to register. Presenters must register by this date or lose their conference program slot. |
| Mid-April | The preliminary program is expected to become available. |
| May 3, 2025 | Last day to withdraw and receive a refund (full refund minus a $75 administration fee). After this date, the registration fee is non-refundable. (*If the conference format is changed after this date due to a public health recommendation, the option to withdraw without penalty will be considered and conference fees may be reduced. All delegates will be informed.) |
| May 13, 2025 | Early registration ends and late registration fees apply thereafter. |
| May 23, 2025 | Online session day. |
| May 29, 2025 | Embrace Day sessions. |
| May 30-31, 2025 | The in-person sessions for paper presentations. |
CEA 2025 Preliminary Programme - Expected early April.
List of Presenters
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