19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

Call for Papers

The Urban Economics Association (UEA) invites the submission of high-quality papers dealing with the economics of cities, housing, real estate, transportation, local public good provision, the spatial distribution of activities, economic geography, and urban or regional policy. The Urban Economics Association seeks to promote participation and excellence in academic research in urban and regional economics.

The 2025 North American Meeting of the UEA is scheduled to take place at Université du Québec à Montréal in Montréal on Friday the 3rd and Saturday the 4th of October 2025. The conference will run from approximately 9:00 to 18:00 local time on both days and include a reception on Friday night and keynote lectures by Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley) and Keith Head (UBC).

Submission: Please submit your paper or extended abstract through the online submission form at https://editorialexpress.com/conference/nauea2025/

We accept the submission of extended abstracts, but all else equal we prefer completed papers. We prefer papers that have not been presented at a previous North American meeting of the UEA. While you may submit multiple papers, this is discouraged and we will accept at most one (there is no limit on the number of accepted papers on which you may appear as a co-author).

Beyond submitting an individual paper, you can propose a complete session of 3 or 4 papers. Papers in complete sessions will still be vetted individually, and the scientific committee reserves the right to regroup papers with other sessions. We encourage including in proposed sessions submissions by researchers whose primary affiliation is in an allied field (e.g. labor, public, trade, development, etc.) but whose paper has clear and strong relevance to urban economists. To submit a session, please first submit each paper through the Conference Maker website and then send the proposed session, including names and paper titles, to nauea2025@urbaneconomics.org.

Submission Deadline: Friday, May 30, 2025. You will be notified in early July whether your submission has been accepted for the conference.

UEA Student Prize: The UEA awards prizes for the best student papers presented at its conferences. Papers presented by full-time PhD students at the time of the conference are eligible for the student prize. Coauthors must also be full-time students, excluding any co-authors who are pre-docs or whose sole role is to facilitate access to data. Please email the chair of the student prize committee, Matthew Freedman (UC Irvine), if your paper is eligible and you do NOT want to be considered for the student prize. Student papers and presentations will be evaluated by the student prize committee and the results will be announced at the conference. See past award winners at https://urbaneconomics.org/meetings/awards.html.

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