14th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research

The Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research, hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University and will take place on 23 December 2025. This one-day conference takes place every year right around Christmas and provides a forum for Lithuanian Economists and their friends to meet each other.

Important dates:

September 15: Open submissions
November 1 November 8: Deadline for submissions
November 22: Decisions on submissions
December 20: Registration deadline for participants
December 23: Conference

Call for papers

We are happy to invite paper submissions for the 14th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University that will take place on December 23, 2025, in Vilnius, Lithuania. This one-day conference takes place every year right around Christmas and provides a forum for Lithuanian economists and their friends to meet each other.

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 8, 2025. The submitting authors will be notified by November 22, 2025.

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), Kristina Griškevičienė (Eruopean Central Bank), Ovidijus Stauskas (BI Norwegian Business School), Aurelija Proškutė (Lietuvos Bankas), Linas Tarasonis (Lietuvos bankas, Vilnius University), Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore), Živilė Žėkaitė (European Central Bank)

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Program

8:30-9:00 Welcome Coffee

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:15 Session A. Transitions (moderator: Živilė Žėkaitė, ECB)

Rating Government Procurement Markets

Alminas Žaldokas (National University of Singapore), Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois), Anastassia Fedyk (University of California, Berkeley), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley), James Hodson (AI for Good), Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine)

Computable General Equilibrium Model for Belarus: Theoretical Aspects and Practical Applications

Anatoly Kharitonchik (BEROC)

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Session B. Financial Markets (moderator: Kristina Griškevičienė, ECB)

The Term Structure of Corporate Bond Risk Premia

Tomas Jankauskas (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Perils of Cross-Selling: How Lack of Diversification between Deposit and Loan Clients Can Engender Bank Fragility

Karolis Liaudinskas (Norges Bank), Viral Acharya (NYU Stern School of Business), Christoph Basten (European Central Bank), Ragnar Juelsrud (Norges Bank and CEPR)

Address-based and PCA Enhanced Framework to Characterize and Identify Black Market Addresses in Bitcoin Network

Evelina Kvedaravičiūtė (Vilnius University), Alfreda Šapkauskienė (Vilnius University), Mikhail Oet (Northeastern University), T.P. Nguyen (Northeastern University), Ankuran Chattoraj (Northeastern University)

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30 Session C. Inequalities (moderator: Aurelija Proškutė, Lietuvos bankas)

Parenthood Timing and Gender Inequality

Julius Ilciukas (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Generative AI and Educational Inequalities: Heterogeneous Effects of Content Differentiation by Student Ability

Justinas Grigaitis (University of Zurich)

Flexibility’s Shortfall: Temporary Agency Work, Wage Growth, and Productivity in UK Firms

Karolis Matikonis (University College Dublin)

Wealth and Intergenerational Power Mobility

Gailius Praninskas (London School of Economics), Ellen Munroe (London School of Economics)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Session D. Econometrics (moderator: Žymantas Budrys, Lietuvos bankas, VU)

Nowcasting and Aggregation: Why Small Euro Area Countries Matter

Jonas Striaukas (Copenhagen Business School), Andrii Babii (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Luca Barbaglia (European Commission), Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Robust Tests for Factor-Augmented Regressions with an Application to the Novel EA-MD-QD Dataset

Ovidijus Stauskas (BI Norwegian Business School), Alessandro Morico (University of Bologna)

17:00-17:10 Closing Words

18:00 Dinner (by invitation only)

Previous year's program

Venue

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University.

Address: Sauletekio av. 9, (II building), 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 20, 2025.

Past meetings

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