To close 2025 on EconMacro, I decided to make a ranking of my best conferences so far.
The first time I presented a paper, it was in July 2009, during my PhD, at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao (a very beautiful city), where I presented a paper on exchange rate adjustments in the euro area. My ten best conference participations are shown below:
- IAEE 2025. 46th IAEE International Conference, Palais des Congrès, Paris, June 2025. Presentation of “Ensuring the security of the clean energy transition: Examining the impact of geopolitical risk on the price of critical minerals,” Open Access version for this research: j.eneco.2025.108195.
- IAAE 2025. 13th IAAE annual conference, University of Turin, Turin, June 2025. Presentation of “Ensuring the security of the clean energy transition: Examining the impact of geopolitical risk on the price of critical minerals,” Open Access version for this research: j.eneco.2025.108195.
- IPDC 2025. 30th International Panel Data Conference, University of Montpellier, Montpellier. Presentation of “Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Fiscal Risk: Do Religious Tensions and Financial Development Matter?” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4943355.
- CFE 2023. CFE – CMStatistics 2023, 17th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, December 2023. Presentation of “How Do Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices?” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4456924.
- SNDE 2025, SNDE Annual Symposium, UTSA, San Antonio, Texas, March 2025. Presentation of “Monetary Policy Reaction to Geopolitical Risks in Unstable Environments” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4762672.
- CEBRA 2024. CEBRA Annual Meeting, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, August 2024. Presentation of “Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in the Era of Financial Integration,” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4342390.
- SEM 2023. 8th annual conference of the Society of Economic Measurement, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, July 2023. Presentation of “Asymmetries in the Oil Market: Accounting for the Growing Role of China Through Quantile Regressions,” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4312171.
- EUROFRAME 2024. 20th EUROFRAME conference on economic policy issues in the EU, Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel. Presentation of “How Do Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices?” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4456924.
- EPCS 2025. 52nd annual conference of the European Public Choice Society, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Riga, April 2025. Presentation of “Monetary Policy Reaction to Geopolitical Risks in Unstable Environments,” Open Access version for this research: ssrn.4762672.
- SILVAPLANA 2025. Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Pontresina, July 2025. Presentation of “Global shocks, institutional development, and trade restrictions: What can we learn from crises and recoveries between 1990 and 2022?” Open Access version for this research: j.jimonfin.2025.103504.
I also attach the slides for the presentation of these different research projects below. Happy New Year!