The 2025 German Development Economics conference took place on 12-13 June, 2025, and was hosted by the Goethe University Frankfurt. The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and poster sessions will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide a forum for exchange for researchers and practitioners.

Keynote Speakers

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
Imran Rasul (University College London)

Local Organizer

Matthias Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Program Chair

Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen)

Selection Committee

Martin Gassebner (Leibniz University Hannover), Michael Grimm (University of Passau), André Gröger (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich), Renate Hartwig (RWI), Tobias Heidland (Kiel Institute), Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen), Sarah Langlotz (University of Göttingen) and Matthias Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Submission

The CfP closed on February 15. 

Program

The program can be found here.