Department of Economics

Research activities in the Economics Department are carried out through the Econometrics Laboratory. The main research themes concern:

• Government economics and collective decision-making: macroeconomics, labor market, international trade, voting analysis, normative economics, economics of sustainable development, urban and land economics;
• Companies and markets: risks and insurance, industrial economics, social and environmental responsibility, crisis prevention and management, theory of organisations;
• Mathematical methods: game theory, mathematical finance and econometrics.

The laboratory is home to:

• teachers and resident researchers who are members of the Department
• associate researchers
• doctoral and post-doctoral students
• visitors

The laboratory is associated with the CNRS and forms the economics component of the "Pôle de Recherche en Économie et Gestion" (PREG) of the École Polytechnique.

The laboratory is a member of the following networks:

• GIS Sciences of Decisions
• GIS Climate Environment Society http://www.gisclimat.fr/
• GIS R2DS : Research Network on Sustainable Development http://www.r2ds.centre-cired.fr/

The laboratory is associated with the following education and research chairs:

• Chaire EDF for Sustainable Development - link
• Chaire Insurance and Major Risk - link
• Chaire Business Economics - link
• Chaire Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment - link