*Early Bird rate refers to non-presenters registering for the conference. ALL individuals accepted as presenters must be registered by the April 3rd deadline. 

**To have access to the discounted student, retiree, and regular member rates, you need to make sure your membership is current and if not then you need to renew your CEA membership. Student, retiree, and regular membership rate tickets will appear once you login to your membership account. We invite you to become a CEA member via the membership page.

***Tickets for CWEC and Purvis lunch are available when you register. They will appear as options once you choose your registration type. However, if you need tickets and you have already registered or if you are buying lunch tickets only, use the following option: LUNCH TICKETS ONLY (separate from conference registration). 

For bulk conference registration, please contact the CEA Office (office@economics.ca)

Registration fees can only be paid by credit card using our CEA association management system. We do not accept other types of payments during advance registration. Specifically, we do not accept cheques (government or personal), purchase orders, or registrations by fax for individuals. Those unable to use government/company credit cards online will need to use their own personal credit card to register and then submit to their employer a claim for reimbursement. Invoices are available in your CEA profile. We make refunds subject to a $100 processing fee until and including May 3, 2026. No refunds will be made after that date.

Early-bird rates are available until May 3, 2026.

Registration opens February 1, 2026.

This is the registration page for the CEA 2026 conference. For conference details, programme highlights, and local information see the CEA2026 home page.  

The local host is the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The programme chair is Professor Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia). The local organizers are Professor Steeve Mongrain and Professor Kevin Schnepel. 

The online sessions will take place on Friday, May 22nd, 2026. 

The CEA Embrace Day special events & workshops will be held again in-person on Thursday May 28th (all registrants can attend). Regular contributed in-person sessions will take place from May 29th and 30th, 2026 at SFU.

All in-person registrations include the online session day on May 22, 2026 as well.

If you are presenting in the programme, you need to register by April 3, 2026 to confirm your attendance

The CEA seeks to ensure its events are free from all forms of discrimination, harassment and retaliation. As such, all CEA event participants are required to abide by the CEA Code of Conduct. 

Your registration entitles you to access the virtual part of the Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings. This registration represents your access to the virtual platform and furthermore agreement to not sharing of your access in conjunction with your participation. All intellectual property rights in and to the events you participate, the content and all materials distributed at or in connection with are owned by the speakers presenting, or by the Canadian Economics Association, or partner university, or sponsors/partners. You may not use, record, or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any content or materials for any reason without the prior written permission of the speakers, the Canadian Economics Association, partner university or sponsors/partners presenting at the virtual Annual Meetings. Accordingly, the Canadian Economics Association requires all registered attendees to comply with the Virtual Events Terms and Conditions of Use as set out herein and as may be amended by the Canadian Economic Association from time to time. 

If you have any questions about your conference registration, please contact the CEA Program Office (office@economics.ca).