The European Commission's Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME), in collaboration with the IÉSEG School of Management , Paris Campus , is happy to announce the conference:

COMPIE 2026 conference (COunterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation)

Paris (France) 24-26 June, 2026

Dates

The conference will be held in-person only. It will start at 13:00 on 24 June 2026 and end at 16:00 on 26 June 2026 CET.

Venue

IÉSEG School of Management, Paris Campus, La Défense

Address: Parvis de la Défense, 92800 Puteaux, France

Format

The conference will consist of plenary, contributed and organised sessions. The conference will be in-person-only.

Keynote speakers

Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna, Emory University

Michela Giorcelli, University of California - Los Angeles

Conference objectives

The aim of COMPIE is to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss developments in the theory and the applications of counterfactual methods for policy impact evaluation. Applications can cover a broad range of interventions, from labor and social policy to regulation and funding programmes, ideally with a focus on EU policies and business management.

Local organizing committee 

Enkelejda Havari, Department of Economics,  IÉSEG School of Management

Registration and information: COMPIE 2026 @ IÉSEG 

Contact points

• for the local organization: Céline Le Suün (c.lesuun@ieseg.fr)
• for the program: Paolo Paruolo

Paper submissions

Link to conference maker for submissions.

Important dates

• Paper submissions: from 1 Jan to 28 Feb, 2026.
• Acceptance decision: 31 Mar 2026. Authors of accepted papers need to register by 30 Apr 2026 to confirm participation.
• Registration: between 1 Apr and 15 May, 2026.
• Programme: to appear in due time at this link

Programme Committee

• Antoine Bozio, Paris School of Economics
• Massimiliano Bratti, University of Milan
• Alex Bryson, University College London
• Marco Caliendo, Potsdam University
• Lorenzo Cappellari, Cattolica University, Milan
• Bart Cockx, University of Ghent
• Maurizio Conti, University of Genoa
• Clément de Chaisemartin, Sciences Po, Paris
• Tomaso Duso, DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research)
• Oliver Falck, CESifo Institute, Munich
• Markus Frölich, University of Mannheim
• Enkelejda Havari, IÉSEG School of Management, Paris
• Martin Huber, University of Fribourg
• Jochen Kluve, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Michael Lechner, University of St. Gallen
• Claudio Lucifora, Cattolica University, Milan
• Giovanni Mellace, University of Southern Denmark
• Blaise Melly, University of Bern
• Hessel Oosterbeek, Amsterdam School of Economics University of Amsterdam
• Paolo Paruolo, European Commission JRC, Chair
• Guido Pellegrini, Sapienza University of Rome
• Chiara Pronzato, University of Torino
• Enrico Rettore, University of Padova
• Michael Rosholm, Aarhus University
• Sylke Schnepf, European Commission JRC
• Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam
• Jan van-Ours, Tilburg University
• Stefano Verzillo, European Commission JRC
• Andrea Weber, Central European University, Budapest Hungary.

COMPIE conference series