Registrations for EEA-ESEM 2018 NOW OPEN!

To register, please read this page and click on the link to the registration form at the bottom on this page.

Registration fees:

REGULAR REGISTRATION (Up to and including 16 May 2018):

LATE REGISTRATION (After May 17):

VAT is included in all the registration fees quoted above.

*Students HAVE TO present a valid Student ID, which MUST sent to the organisers immediately after the registration process. Registration cannot be completed without this valid document.

** Low-middle income countries is defined by the World Bank list here . Please note that the criterion for reduced fee is not nationality but place of work so that a national of Ukraine or Turkey, for example, working in The Netherlands is not eligible. If you register for this category, please contact the organisers through registration@eea-esem-congresses.org with information about your place of work. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR PRESENTING AUTHORS IS WEDNESDAY MAY 16. IF YOU ARE AN AUTHOR OF AN ACCEPTED PAPER AND YOU DO NOT REGISTER BY THAT DATE, YOUR PAPER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE FINAL PROGRAMME.

When registering, please remember the EEA and ES submission and presenting policy - presenters can only present one paper in the EEA sessions and one paper in the ES sessions. Furthermore, All presenters at EEA-ESEM Cologne 2018 must be a member of the association in which the paper is being presented (therefore all EEA session presenters must be members of the EEA and all ES presenters must be members of the ES).

Included in the STANDARD Registration Fee:

• Admission to all scientific sessions
• Conference materials (congress bag, badge, congress information booklet - if requested, etc.)
• Coffee breaks and lunches: coffee breaks from afternoon of Monday August 27 to morning of Friday August 31. Lunches will be provided on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Participation in the Welcome Reception (Monday August 27) - A large selection of small dishes will be served at the Gürzenich -  a 15th Century Assembly Hall in the centre of Cologne.
• Participation in the Congress Dinner (Thursday August 30) - This standing grill/BBQ will be held at Flora, the Orangerie in the botanical gardens of Cologne. Weather permitting, there is a large terrace where one can eat while soaking up the views of the garden.

Included in the REDUCED Registration Fee:

• Admission to all scientific sessions
• Conference materials (congress bag, badge, congress information booklet - if requested, etc.)
• Coffee breaks and lunches: coffee breaks from afternoon of Monday August 27 to morning of Friday August 31. Lunches will be provided on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Participation in the Welcome Reception (Monday August 27) - A large selection of small dishes will be served at the Gürzenich -  a 15th Century Assembly Hall in the centre of Cologne.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU REGISTER FOR THE REDUCED CATEGORY, IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR THE CONGRESS DINNER ONSITE DURING EEA-ESEM COLOGNE 2018

Included for Accompanying Persons:

• Accompanying person badge
• Admission to exhibition
• Coffee breaks and lunches: coffee breaks from afternoon of Monday August 27 to morning of Friday August 31. Lunches will be provided on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Participation in the Welcome reception and Congress party

IMPORTANT NOTE: Accompanying persons do not have access to any scientific sessions.

Students

A 'student' is defined as somebody registered in an academic programme at the time of registration. If you are registering as a student, please send a scanned copy of a letter signed by your supervisor or head of department to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org during the registration process. Failure to provide this documentation could result in your registration being delayed or withdrawn. 

Insurance and Disclaimer

Neither the Local Arrangements Committee, nor the European Economic Association (EEA), nor the Econometric Society (ES), nor University of Cologne, nor any other third parties involved in the organisation of EEA-ESEM Cologne 2018, provide insurance and do not accept liability for losses of whatever nature incurred by participants and/or accompanying persons, nor for loss of or damage to their luggage and/or personal belongings at the Congress venue. Furthermore, all the parties listed above do not take responsibility for any loss, accident, damage or illness that might occur during the Congress or in the course of travel to or from the meeting site. Participants, therefore, are strongly recommended to arrange their own personal insurance and to check the validity of their own travel insurance.

Full EEA-ESEM Cologne Disclaimer here.

PAYMENT

You can pay your registration fee online with a credit card (VISA / MASTERCARD ONLY), or you can pay the registration fee via bank transfer. Please note that if you choose to pay online, but don't finish the payment process, your form will not be saved so you will have to re-register.

Paying By Bank Transfer

Bank charges are the responsibility of the payee and are to be paid at the source, in addition to the registration fee. Your payment will otherwise not be accepted. Details on how to transfer the registration fee by bank transfer can be downloaded directly on the registration form. If you make a bank transfer a few days before the deadline date for presenting authors of May 16, please send the bank transfer confirmation to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org as soon as the transfer has been made. Not doing this will result in delays and may lead to your paper not being included on the final programme.

IMPORTANT

Your registration is only considered complete on payment of the registration fees. It will be confirmed after receiving full payment. After having made the payment online, if you do not receive the confirmation email within 24 hours, please check your spam box before contacting us at registration@eea-esem-congresses.org 

Receipts of Registration Payment

The confirmation email can act as a receipt. If your institution requires something more formal, please write to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org with the full billing details of your institution (including VAT number where applicable).

Changes in Registration

Should you be unable to attend, the organisers will do all they can to accommodate requests to be replaced by a colleague. The request must be made in writing and sent to the organisers of EEA-ESEM Cologne 2018 via email to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org. The organisers can only accept requests up to and including July 31 2018. An administrative fee of €30 will be charged.

Cancellation Policy

Registration can be cancelled upon written notification to the organisers, by e-mail to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org. You will receive a confirmation of acceptance of cancellation.
Cancellations received on or before June 15 2018 are subjected to a 50% administrative fee. No refunds will be paid if cancellations are received on or after June 16 2018. All refunds will be made after the end of the Congress.

On-Site Registrations

It will be possible to register at the Congress, logging into the EEA-ESEM registration form online and using credit card.

Certificate of Attendance

In order to reduce the amount of paper used at EEA-ESEM Cologne, participants will receive a "Certificate of Attendance" in pdf format on request only. Requests for these certificates must be made to registration@eea-esem-congresses.org after the Congress has finished and before September 15.

Childcare

There are limited places available for small children (up to 6 years of age) at the kindergarten of the University of Cologne throughout the Congress. The Kindergarten, which is located a few minutes walk from the buildings being used for EEA-ESEM Cologne, will be open during the hours of the contributed and invited sessions. To register your interest in reserving one of these places, please write to congress@eeassoc.org by April 30. The place, if available, will be confirmed by May 16, which is the deadline for presenting authors.

PLEASE PROCEED TO REGISTER FOR THE CONGRESS HERE