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Casa Home Ru Ape Brochure Sept2016 Pse
APE students benefit from the research environment of the Paris School of Economics,
internationally recognized as leader in environmental and demographic economics,
international and development economics, labor economics and economic theory,
macroeconomics, public policy evaluation. In terms of the curriculum, the APE graduate
programme offers a wide range of courses thanks to the diversity of the academic
institutions involved.
For students who receive the master degree, the primary career paths are non-academic
positions in public administrations, banks and insurance companies as Economists, Analysts
and Statisticians - as well as pursuing in a PhD programme.
The Paris School of Economics
The career opportunities for young PhDs are academic positions in French or international
universities, research institutions and international organizations. Students benefit from the
excellence of the PSE when entering the Academic Job Market.
Some examples of entities Alumni are working at: Air France KLM, AMSE, AXA France, Bank
for International Settlements, Banque de France, Berkeley University, BNP Paribas, European
Central Bank, Harvard, J-PAL/MIT, New York University, OECD, Paris School of Economics,
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, TSE, World Bank, Yale…
Year M2 Course
FIRST SEMESTER
Elective core courses (4 compulsory)
Financial Economics 36 hours
Risk, Information and Time 36 h.
General Equilibrium Theory 36 h.
Behavorial Economics 36 h.
Incentives and Public Governance 36 h.
Industrial Organization 36 h.
Growth and Structural Changes 36 h.
Political economy 36 h.
Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies 36 h.
Disequilibrium and impecfections 36 h.
Development Economics 36 h.
International Macroeconomics 36 h.
International Trade 36 h.
Population Economics 36 h.
Environmental Economics 36 h.
Economics of Inequality 36 h.
Economics of Social Policies 36 h.
Economics of Education 36 h.
Health Economics 36 h.
Advanced Economic History 36 h.
Advanced Macroeconometrics 36 h.
Advanced Microeconometrics 36 h.
Workgroups (1 compulsory)
Microeconomics 36 hours
Macroeconomics 36 h.
International and development economics 36 h.
Demography economics 36 h.
Public economics 36 h.
TOTAL Min. 180 hours
Year M2 Course
SECOND SEMESTER
Elective courses (6 compulsory)
Applicat. of Impact evaluation in Development microeconomics 18 hours
Applied Labour Economics 18 h.
Computational Economics 18 h.
Coordination of expectations 18 h.
Duration Models 18 h.
Dynamic Optimization 18 h.
Economic policies and strategies for development 18 h.
Empirical Industrial organization 18 h.
Environmental Policy 18 h.
Experimental Economics 18 h.
Foreign Investment 18 h.
Games and Information 18 h.
Geography Economics 18 h.
Growth , Distribution and institutions in LDCs 18 h.
Historical Demography 18 h.
IO and applications to antitrust and regulation 18 h.
Migration 18 h.
Monetary and Financial Macroeconomics 18 h.
Neuro-Economics 18 h.
Panel Data 18 h.
Population Policy 18 h.
Public policy evaluation 18 h.
Search and Matching 18 h.
Subjective well-being 18 h.
Social Interactions 18 h.
Social Network 18 h.
Taxation 18 h.
Theories of collective choice 18 h.
Topics in Econometrics 18 h.
Topics in empirical political economy 18 h.
Topics in insurance economics 18 h.
Trade Policy 18 h.
Urban Economics 18 h.
Master Thesis
TOTAL Min. 288 hours
Applications
All applicants for the APE Master degree are subject to a selective admissions process. They
must demonstrate an excellent aptitude for learning the analytical and quantitative tools
that are the hallmark of the training at PSE. On the average, 20% of the M1 applicants are
successful, while 15% of the “external” M2 applicants get admitted (in M2, most of the slots
are dedicated to M1 students).
Dedicated website
www.pse-application.eu
See the dedicated brochure “PSE: how to apply on line?”
For students coming from Paris 1 and that wish to registered there,
you must also register on the Sésame Application website: https://sesame.univ-paris1.fr/
Contact information
E-mail: master-ape@psemail.eu