The Armenian Economic Association had its 15th Anniversary Conference from June 30 to July 2, 2025, in Yerevan Armenia. While June 30 and July 1 was at the Najarian building of the American University of Armenia (Dzoragyugh 11), July 2 was at the Paramaz Avedisian Building of the American University of Armenia (Marshal Baghramyan 40).
As always, the 2025 conference showcased research across the full spectrum of economic disciplines—ranging from microeconomics to macroeconomics, theoretical to empirical studies, and from applied research to foundational work. 85 presenters from every corner of the world (and the profession) gathered to present and network. A special session was devoted to the Armenian administrative matched dataset. A panel discussion on the topic “Does Inequality Challenge Growth?” concluded the 3 days of work.
Keynote Speakers
University of California at Berkeley
University of Chicago
12:20pm Registration
12:45 Opening Remarks
1:00pm Keynote by Gérard Roland
2:00pm Coffee Break
2:30pm Sessions 1
- Session 1A: Culture, Religion and Trust
- Session 1B: Banking
- Session 1C: Health 1
- Session 1D: Environment
4:30 Coffee Break
5:00pm Sessions 2
- Session 2A: Methods in Empirical Economics 1
- Session 2B: Macro 1
- Session 2C: Education & Welfare
- Session 2D: Geopolitics
7:00pm Social gathering
9:00am Sessions 3
- Session 3A: Labor
- Session 3B: Innovation and Technology
- Session 3C: Inflation and Monetary Policy
11:00am Coffee Break
11:30am Sessions 4
- Session 4A: Macro Labor
- Session 4B: Armenian Administrative Micro Data
- Session 4C: Methods in Empirical Economics 2
1:30pm Lunch
3:00pm Sessions 5
- Session 5A: Development
- Session 5B: Industrial Organization
- Session 5C: International Economics 2
- Session 5D: Central Banking
4:30pm Coffee Break
5:00pm Sessions 6
- Session 6A: Health 2
- Session 6B: Microeconomics
- Session 6C: International Economics 2
- Session 6D: Public Economics
12:30 Sessions 7
- Session 7A: Development and Wealth 2
- Session 7B: International Economics 3
- Session 7C: Financial Economics
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 YES Keynote by Steven Durlauf
15:45 Panel Discussion ‘Inequality & Growth’
17:00 Awards, Wine, Music, and Closing (Akian Gallery)
Locations
June 30 and July 1 AUA Najarian Building, 11 Dzoragyugh str (next to Parajanov Museum). Same location as in the previous year.
July 2
AUA Paramaz Avedisian Building, Marshal Baghramyan 40 (not far from the metro stop). This is the location that has been used in the years before last.
Awards
In 2025 Armenian Economic Association gave
- Armen Alchian Award for the best general-interest work presented at the conference to Salome Baslandze (Atlanta Fed)for her paper The Price of Delay: Supply Chain Disruptions and Pricing Dynamics
- Grigor Artsruni Award to a Young Economist for the most promising work to Jessica Mancuso (Collegio Carlo Alberto) for her paper Sons of War: The Effect of Conflict on Son Preference.
IMF Best Paper Award (presented by IMF Yerevan Resident Representative’s office) was given to Armen Khederlarian (CUNY) for his work From Diaspora Dollars to Default Risk: Remittances and Sovereign Spreads.
Ashot Mkrtchyan Award (presented by the Central Bank of Armenia) was given to Giulio Tarquini (La Sapienza) for his work The Enduring Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy.
Voskeni Award in the Field of Agricultural and Environmental Economics was given to Daniela Horta Sáenz (Sciences Po) for her work Collateral Damage: The Impact of Forced Eradication of Illicit Crops on Human Capital.
Conference Committee
Gurgen Aslanyan (American University of Armenia)
Ruben Enikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Tatevik Sekhposyan (Texas A&M University)
Organisational Committee
Caio Lorecchio (University of Barcelona)
Eva Bazinyan (Armenian State University of Economics)
Hayk Kamalyan (American University of Armenia)
Sargis Maghakyan (CERGE-EI Prague)
Institutional Supporters
The 2025 Meetings received generous support from the International Association for Applied Econometrics, the American University of Armenia, Yerevan Economics School, the CERGE-EI Foundation, as well as from numerous individual donors.
YES Summer School
Yerevan Economic School, in cooperation with the University of Chicago, organizes a Summer School in Dilijan intended for young economists that will follow AEA 2025 Annual Meetings. This year the focus of the Summer School is on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality. The summer school will feature several short-term courses, research seminars, and workshops in which participants will be given an opportunity to discuss their work with recognised scholars in the field.