Call for Papers
Conference venue:
TU Dortmund University
International Meeting Center (IBZ)
Emil-Figge-Straße 59
44227 Dortmund
Conference Date: February 25-26, 2025
Keynotes
Michèle Tertilt
Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim
Aslı Sevindim
Head of the Integration department, Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Call for Papers and Submission
The submission deadline is December 13, 2024. We welcome submissions in all areas of economics from early career researchers.
To submit, please send the following documents in PDF format to
- Full paper, including abstract and JEL classification codes, in the format
[lastname_firstname_paper.pdf] - CV including contact information, in the format
[lastname_firstname_cv.pdf]
Acceptance decisions will be made by the scientific committee and notifications of acceptance will be sent to submitting email addresses between January 10th and 17th, 2025.
There is no participation or registration fee.
The Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) is part of the Research Academy Ruhr and combines the expertise of the four UA Ruhr economics departments and the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, one of Germany’s leading economic research institutes. It offers a structured doctoral program in the field of economics, including research-oriented courses, workshops and conferences.
Aim and Scope
The aim of this annual, refereed conference is to provide a professional, stimulating, and international environment in which around 75 – 100 PhD students in economics can discuss their research results and ideas, establish informal networks, and initiate future collaborative research. The conference also connects early career with experienced researchers, including RGS Econ’s more than 45 faculty members from the universities of Dortmund, Duisburg-Essen, and Bochum, as well as the RWI, one of Germany’s leading economic research institutes.
We consider full papers, both empirical and theoretical, from early-career researchers in all research areas in economics, including:
- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
- Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Econometrics and Applied Econometrics
- Labor Economics
- Health Economics
- Public Economics
- Political Economy
- Economics of Migration
- Finance and Financial Markets
- Industrial Organization
- International Economics
- Urban, Real-Estate, and Regional Economics
The format of the conference consists of topical sessions containing three papers. Each presentation (20 minutes) will be followed by a discussion by another presenter in the same session (5 minutes) and a subsequent open discussion (5 minutes).
The best paper to be submitted and presented at the conference will be awarded a prize of EUR 500 after the first day of the conference.
Guidelines for Paper Presentation
Please familiarize yourself with the presentation guidelines and adhere to the instructions during the conference.
Conference Format
The conference is planned as an in-person event (there will be no video feed). Please bring your presentation and disussion on a USB Stick in .pdf-format. A presentation laptop, laser pointer and white board will be provided.
In the unlikely event of substantial covid-travel or other restrictions, the conference will be migrated online (via zoom). We would communicate this in late January.
Session Chair
A professor from the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics will chair the session. The chair welcomes and introduces the participants, moderates the open discussion and supervises that time constraints are met. If the session’s chair is absent, the last presenter listed should take the role of session chair.
Discussants
Every presenter is assigned to be the discussant of the previous paper in the same session. Accordingly, the second speaker is discussant of the first paper, the third speaker is discussant of the second paper and the first speaker is discussant of the last paper. We communicate session allocation of accepted papers around 4 weeks prior to the conference and ask presenters to share their (updated) paper with their discussant two weeks prior to the conference.