Armenian Economic Association 2021 Annual Meetings: registration open

The Armenian Economic Association 11th Annual Meetings will be held online on June 24-26, 2021. The meetings feature three keynote speakers: Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po), Lee E. Ohanian (UCLA), and Johanna Rickne (Stockholm U), with over 70 presentations by economists from around the globe.

Free registration and more detail on the presentations is available at http://aea.am/annual-meetings-2021/, with a timetable of the sessions provided below. 

All Yerevan time: (Moscow -1, Paris -2, London -3, New York -8, Los Angeles -11)

Thursday, June 24, 2021

13:45-14:00 Opening Remarks

14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture: Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po)

15:00-15:30 Networking session

15:30-17:30 Session 1: Macro I

17:45-19:45 Session 2A: Economic History of the Soviet Union

17:45-19:45 Session 2B: Public Economics

20:00-22:00 Session 3A: International Trade and Development

20:00-22:00 Session 3B: Dynamic Public Finance (Macro Tax)

Friday, June 25, 2021

11:00-13:00 Session 4A: Conflict Studies

11:00-13:00 Session 4B: Macro II

13:10-15:10 Session 5A: Trade and Borders I

13:10-15:10 Session 5B: Labor Economics

15:20-16:20 Keynote Lecture: Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University)

16:30-18:30 Session 6A: Migration

16:30-18:30 Session 6B: Health Economics

18:45-20:15 Session 7A: Trade and Borders II

18:45-20:15 Session 7B: Development

20:30-22:30 Session 8A: Economics of Sports

20:30-22:30 Session 8B: Foreign Exchange Constraints in Developing Economies

Saturday, June 26, 2021

10:00-12:00 Session 9A: Finance and Banking

10:00-12:00 Session 9B: Applied theory

12:10-14:10 Session 10: Behavioral and Experimental Economics

14:20-15:50 Session 11A: Pandemic and Economic Policy

14:20-15:50 Session 11B: The Next Generation (student session)

16:00-18:00 Session 12: Mixed Frequency and Big Data

18:15-20:15 Session 13A: Econometrics

18:15-20:15 Session 13B: Macro and Finance

20:30-21:30 Keynote Lecture: Lee Ohanian (University of California, Los Angeles)

21:30-22:00 Awards for best papers and closing

2019 Armenian Household and Labor Force Surveys Released

 Armstat released the 2019 Household Integrated Living Conditions Survey as well as the 2019 Labor Force Survey.  The surveys are available in XLS and SPSS formats.

Armenian Economic Association 2021 Annual Meetings

Call for Papers Papers in all areas of economics and finance are welcome. We invite both theoretical and empirical works. Work addressing issues of growth and development in Armenia and the wider region are highly encouraged. Topics may include economic consequences of the Pandemic, patterns of trade and integration, trends in labor markets and migration, tax policy, income inequality, regulatory reforms, health, pensions, environment, or other topics on current advances in economics and finance. 

Submit abstracts of less than 500 words by May 10. Decisions by May 20. Submissions are free with no cost to present and participate. Submit at 

http://aea.am/annual-meetings-2021/ or 

https://forms.gle/p4iJP82NNUFzdf2c6. 

 Keynote Speakers: 

Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po) 

Lee E. Ohanian (UCLA) 

Johanna Rickne (Stockholm U) 

 Awards Best Paper Awards are made available by AEA for general interest papers (Armen Alchian Award), young scholars (Grigor Artzruni Award), and award in agricultural and environmental economics, as well as by the International Monetary Fund for papers in macroeconomics, and the C-Quadrat Award (€500) for student papers in pension economics and asset management. Submission of completed papers in advance is required to be considered for the awards.