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The Economics Concentration


In this concentration, students can specialize in one of the following subfields:
- Industrial Organization
- International Economics (micro or macro)
- Public Economics

Philosophy


The Economics concentration of the Ph.D. Program provides doctoral students with a solid grounding in economic theory, as well as the analytical and statistical tools needed to conduct high-quality theoretical and empirical research.

The Program is conducted jointly with the University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), one of the leading French universities in Economics and Finance. Combining the faculties of both institutions is an important asset of the Program that allows for a wide range of courses/seminars as well as research facilities, varied experiences, and supervision for students*.

The Program starts with courses common to Economics and Finance students: preliminary courses (September of the first year), and a set of advanced courses/seminars during the first quarter of the first year. Students then specialize in Economics and follow advanced courses/seminars specific to the concentration.
At the beginning of the second year, students must also follow a number of General Requirement courses/seminars (two courses among the four interdisciplinary courses offered for all concentrations (besides Finance and Micro-Economics) in September and the first quarter of year 2, plus Epistemology and Philosophy of Sciences).
In Economics, students may specialize in three main areas: Industrial Organization, International Economics (with micro or macro emphasis), and Public Economics.


* another asset of the program: Ph.D. students will obtain a Master in Research awarded jointly by ESSEC Business School and the University of Cergy-Pontoise (UCP)
after successful completion of the first year of studies in our Ph.D. Program.

730 hours of courses and seminars


General Requirement plus Preliminary courses/seminars: 170 hours
Year 1 courses/seminars: 317 hours
Year 2 courses/seminars: 243 hours

For all students


Preliminary courses (September of year 1)
- Introduction to Finance and Portfolio Theory (20 hours)
- Mathematics for Economics and Finance (20 hours)
- Microeconomics (30 hours)

Advanced courses/seminars (first quarter of year 1)
- Advanced Microeconomics for Economics and Finance (27 hours)
- Econometrics for Economics and Finance (27 hours)
- Macroeconomics (27 hours)
- Applied Statistics (30 hours)

Advanced courses/seminars (year 1 and 2)
- Game Theory (27 hours)
- Advanced Micro-Econometrics (27 hours)
- Time Series Analysis in Economics (27 hours)
- Advanced Macroeconomics (27 hours)
- Advanced Microeconomics (27 hours)
- Research Seminar 1: Professor Seminar (27 hours)
- Research Seminar 2: Student Seminar (27 hours)
- Reading Seminar on Specialized Subjects (30 hours)

For each specialization, two compulsory courses (27 hours each)


Industrial Organization specialization
- Industrial Organization
- Empirical Industrial Organization

International Economics (microeconomics or macroeconomics) specialization
- International Finance
- International Trade

Public Economics specialization
- Public Economics
- Labor Economics

Plus, for each specialization, five electives to be chosen from (27 hours each)


- Compulsory courses from other specializations
- Economics of Information
- Corporate Governance
- Numerical Methods
- Monetary Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Economics of Education
- Health Economics