The VfS Annual Conference consists of a core conference part with keynotes and a core conference panel on the current topic and an open conference part (Open Meeting) on all economic topics. Manuscripts for the open conference can be submitted from February 1st to March 1st 2026 from all fields of economics as individual papers or as organised sessions. The submissions will be evaluated by anonymous reviewers and then selected by the programme committee. The information about the acceptance of the contribution will be sent between mid and end of May. The submitters then have two weeks to send us feedback with their acceptance (link in the email). Presenters must register for the conference by a certain date so that their contribution can be included in the programme.
Publication of the Contributions
With approval during the submission process, accepted contributions will be published in EconStor, the online publication database of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Center Economy which is a part of the collection of all VfS conference contributions. Further publication is not intended by the Verein fuer Socialpolitik.
EconStor is a disciplinary publication server for the distribution of economics research papers in Open Access. It is maintained by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Making your conference paper on EconStor as a pre-publication available, increases the visibility of your research (e.g. via RePEc) and does not conflict with the submission to a scholarly journal. If necessary, papers on EconStor can be withdrawn and deleted at any time. Further information here.
Programme Committee
Head of the Programme Committee: Nadja Dwenger (University of Hohenheim)
- Steffen Altmann (University of Würzburg)
- Anna Bindler (DIW Berlin)
- Richard Bluhm (University of Stuttgart)
- Martin Huber (Université de Fribourg)
- Cathrin Mohr (University of Hamburg)
- Klaus Prettner (WU Wien)
- Jens Ruhose (University of Kiel)
- Dominik Sachs (University St. Gallen)
- Amelie Schiprowski (University of Bonn)
- Andreas Schrimpf (University of Tübingen)
- Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (University of Leipzig)
- Jan Schymik (University of Mannheim)
- Ariel Dora Stern (Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam)
- Kathrine von Graevenitz (ZEW Mannheim)
- Mirko Wiederholt (LMU Munich)