Paris School of Economics


The Paris School of Economics is a French research institute in the field of economics. It offers MPhil, MSc, and PhD level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, including macroeconomics, econometrics, political economy and international economics.
PSE is a brainchild of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École normale supérieure · PSL, the École des ponts and University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. It is physically located on the ENS-PSL Jourdan campus, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 2006 as a coalition of grandes écoles, a university and an école normale supérieure to unify high-level research in economics across French academia, and was first presided by economist Thomas Piketty.
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Status

Created in December 2006, the Paris School of Economics has the status of fondation reconnue d’utilité publique. This status allows PSE to draw on both public and private funding.
PSE is a "Fondation de Coopération scientifique", a new type of foundation created by the French government to develop centres providing national excellence. Scientific Research Foundations operate according to the same rules as Public interest foundations.
  • The Paris School of Economics is administered by a Board of Directors consisting of representatives of the public and private partners, researchers, and outside personalities.
  • The Scientific Council consists of international researchers, external to PSE, of whom at least 50% work abroad. The Scientific Council evaluates the quality of both current and proposed teaching and research programmes. 3 Nobel Prizes laureates are members of the PSE Scientific Council.

Degree programmes

The foundation offers teaching through four Master programmes and a PhD Economics programme.

Master's programmes

  • Master APE: Analysis and Policy in Economics
  • Master PPD: Public Policy and Development
  • Master EDCBA: Economic Decision and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Master Economics and Psychology

PSE in international rankings

Its contributory economics faculties, including the Ecole Normale Superieure, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE, are ranked between the top 13 among 53 departments worldwide by publication output of the top five scholars. According to the global economics departments ranking released in May 2020 by RePEc, Paris School of Economics was ranked at 5th worldwide, 1st in Europe.

International partnerships

The Paris School of Economics has exchange students programs with some universities such as New York University or the University of California, Berkeley. It is also member of many exchange networks :
The World Inequality Report 2018 compiled by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chanel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman was released on 14 December 2017 at the Paris School of Economics during the first WID.world Conference held on 14 December and 15 December, which was sponsored by the Paris School of Economics, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Ford Foundation, and the European Research Council. World Wealth and Income Database, an open source database, which is part of an international collaborative effort of over a hundred researchers in five continents. The WID is an extension of the earlier World Top Incomes Database.

Alumni

Scientific council