12th Annual SaM Conference

The Search and Matching Network (SaM) is a European network of academic economists working on search and matching models, including models of labour market search, consumer search, money search and housing search. It organizes an Annual Conference, aimed at bringing together prominent researchers from Europe and elsewhere, while also including promising PhD students, to facilitate feedback and the exchange of ideas.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Search and Matching Network (SaM) invites submissions for its 12th Annual Conference, to be held from May 28 to 30, 2026, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Keynote speakers:

Belén Jerez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Fabien Postel-Vinay (University College London, United Kingdom)

We welcome submission of both theoretical and empirical papers. Accepted papers will be invited to present their work either in a plenary session of presentations or a poster session; there are no parallel sessions.

Please submit your paper until February 15, 2026 through this form. Authors will be notified by March 30, 2026.

All participants, whether presenting or not, need to register for the conference before April 15, 2026. There is no conference free. Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

We are look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

Local Organizers

Ana Figueiredo and Leonard Bocquet

SaM Committee

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (chair, University of Essex), Ana Figueiredo (VU Amsterdam), Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London), Marion Goussé (CREST), Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt), Andreas Mueller (University of Zurich), Daphné Skandalis (University of Copenhagen), Antonella Trigari (Bocconi University), and Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)