During the first week of December the CEA holds the Canadian Economics Employment Exchange (CEEE) in Toronto, providing an opportunity for recruitment of graduate students to faculty positions at universities, colleges, the Bank of Canada, and other agencies.
The officers of the Association are the president, vice-president (who is always the conference organizer for the next year), deputy vice-president, past president, secretary, treasurer, and the editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.
Since 1994, the CEA has awarded the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for the past year's best work on Canadian economic policy.
[3] In 2017 the Canadian Women Economists Committee (Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes) (CWEC) was established as a standing committee of the Association with its purview being to follow on the previously more independent work of Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) (founded 1999).
The CEA argues that the move from CWEN to CWEC was because the responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on the female membership, but on the profession as a whole.