Programme 2026

You can find the descriptions of the contents at the linked events. The individual lectures (e.g. of the Open Meeting) with the corresponding event rooms can be found in the CONVERIA Conference Calendar. For mobile phones, we provide a web-based conference app via CONVERIA.

Sunday 13 September 2026

13:00-14:30 Workshop: Mentoring for Women
14:40-16:40 Workshop: Careers Outside of Academia
14:40-16:40 Workshop: Open Science
17:00-18:00 Assembly of VfS Members
18:00-21:00 Welcome Reception and Award Ceremony: Reinhard Selten Award

Monday 14 September 2026

09:00-18:00 Jobmarket Preparation Seminar
09:00-10:30 Open Meeting Block A
09:00-10:00 Press Meeting
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Opening of the VfS Annual Conference 2026
11:30-12:30 Keynote 1: Lucia Reisch
12:30-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:00 WZB Panel
14:00-15:00 Keynote 2: Matthew Rabin
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Open Meeting Block B
15:30-17:00 Panel of the Central Banks
17:00-18:00 VfS Panel
18:30-22:00 Evening Reception 
18:30-18:45 Award Ceremony: Carl Menger Award
18:30-19:35 Thünen Lecture: 

Tuesday 15 September 2026

09:00-18:00 Jobmarket Preparation Seminar
09:00-10:30 Open Meeting Block C
09:00-10:30 Panel Session RatSWD
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Open Meeting Block D
11:00-12:30 Panel ECONWATCH
11:00-12:30 Workshop for Women: Online Hate Matters
12:30-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:00 IHS Panel
13:15-14:00 Networking for Women
14:00-15:30 Open Meeting Block E
14:15-15:15 Workshop: DFG
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Award Ceremony: Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award
16:30-17:30 Core Conference Panel
17:30-18:30 Panel
19:00-22:00 Evening Reception: Gustav Stolper Award

Wednesday 16 September 2026

08:45-10:15 Open Meeting Block F
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Open Meeting Block G
12:00-13:00 Keynote 3: Ulrike Malmendier
13:00-13:15 Closing Speech
13:15-14:00 Brown Bags
14:00-16:00 Workshop: First Generation Academics

12:00-14:30 Schüler:innentag "Faszination Wirtschaftswissenschaften"