EP
Program Main Web Site :Aims : The APE specialty within QEF Master's program aims to offer a training program corresponding to the two-year coursework of U.S. Ph.D. programmes. The program consists of basic and methodological courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Economic History and of a training to research step by step.
Content : The M2 Year requires students to complete compulsory courses (2x6 ECTS) during the 1st semester, advanced courses during both semesters (27 ECTS) and a Masters dissertation (21 ECTS). Therefore, APE students choose advanced courses (9 to be chosen, which at least 2 units among 2 specialties) count from 1.5 ECTS (0.5 course) to 4.5 ECTS (1.5 course). They cover all major fields of specialization (Economic Theory, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, Public and Labor Economics, Development Economics, Finance) before writing their Master's dissertation. The total teaching load during the M2 year is about 300 hours.
Semestre 1:
Mandatory courses (2x6 ECTS) :
Macroeconomics 4: Disequilibrium and imperfections
General Equilibrium and International Trade
Elective courses (18 ECTS) :
Quantitative Methods:
Advanced Econometrics of Qualitative Data Public Policy Evaluation: Econometric methods
Applied Microeconometrics
International & Development Economics:
Economie du développement
Economic geography
Advanced International Economics
Economic policies in LDCs
Labour and Public economics:
Economics of education
Economics of taxation
Economics of inequality
Economics of labour and social policies
Health Economics
Evaluating public policies
Economic theory :
Behavioral Economics & Bounded Rationality
Coalitions and Networks
Strategic Information Transmission
Market Design
Social Interactions and Institutions
Theories of collective choice and voting models
Risk, Finance, Insurance:
Advanced Corporate Finance 1
Advanced Corporate Finance 2
Compulsory (finance) course: Financial Economics: Introduction
Risk and Insurance Economics
Empirical Corporate Finance
Economic history:
Political economy of financial markets
History, Economic Growth, and the Political Economy of Institutions
Long Term transformations of capitalism (XVIIIth-XXth centuries)
Advanced Macroeconomics :
Business cycles: Theories and Methods
Macroeconomic Finance
Open macroeconomics and international integration
Topics on Financial Crises
Markets and organisations :
Advanced Industrial Organisation 1
Environmental Economics
Industrial organization and applications to antitrust and regulation
Topics in Industrial Organization
Semester 2 (30 ECTS):
Elective courses:
Quantitative methods:
Structural Econometrics
Experimental Economics
Macroeconometrics
Duration Models
Recent developments in non parametric and semiparametric methods
International & Development Economics:
Applications of Impact Evaluation in Development Micro-economics
Growth, distribution and institutions in LDCs
The distributional challenges of globalization
Labour and Public economics:
Economic Demography
Economics of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
Personnel and Applied Labour Economics
Household Economics
Labor economics and Employment Policies
Political economy of government and development
Topics in Labor Economics
Income, Comparisons, Inequality and Subjective Well-Being
Economic theory :
Repeated Games
Coordination in Macroeconomics
Decision Theory
Coordination of expectations : Elements for a Theory of Financial and Economic Crises
Economic Networks: Theory and Empirics
Risk, Finance, Insurance:
Microeconomics of intertemporal choice
Microstructure of financial markets
Interest rate curve and public debt
Economic history:
Topics in Financial History
History of states finance
Historical approaches of work discipline
Advanced Macroeconomics :
Topics in International Macroeconomics and International Finance
Solving and Estimating DSGE models
Markets and organisations :
Advanced Industrial Organisation 2
Incentives and Public Governance
Master\'s thesis (21 ECTS)
Intensive courses:
Further opportunities : Students will be able to continue their training in a PhD program. Then, they will able to careers (academic positions) in french or international universities. They will also be able to apply for positions in national, european and international governmental organizations as well in companies. A direct entrance in the labor market after the specialty is also possible for economists or/and statistician (NGO, banks, insurance companies...).
Highlights : The good placement of our students on the labor market is provided by the quality of our host laboratories. APE Master's program is also a member (since 1987) of the European Doctoral Programme (EDP) in Economics. It gathers the EHESS, the London School of Economics, the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the European University Institute in Florence and universities of Bonn, Louvain and Tel Aviv.
Last Modification : Wednesday 7 September 2005