About us

Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)  is a project combining a research unit (UMR 7316), a graduate school and an outreach department.

AMSE is an innovative and original project centered on the fundamental concerns of our societies. Research and teaching are carefully combined to train a new generation of economists capable of dealing with all the challenges of a world in crisis, capable of putting their knowledge of economics to work for citizens and policy makers.

AMSE research takes three directions:

• Axis 1: economic crises and the crisis of macroeconomics,
• Axis 2: development, democratic transitions, migrations and growth,
• Axis 3: environmental and health crises.

Our aim is to build on our four existing fields of methodological excellence:

• Macrodynamics and quantitative macroeconomics,
• Network theory,
• Econometrics of time series, panel data,
• Big data.

AMSE graduate school is a department of the Faculty of Economics and Management at Aix-Marseille University. It provides world class programs in Economics focusing on:

• empirical and theoretical economics,
• economic policy analysis,
• quantitative finance and insurance,
• econometrics-big data-statistics,

and awards Master, Magistère, and PhD degrees.

AMSE brings together rigorous selectivity, research-based pedagogy, world class support to students, interdisciplinary curricula, strong connections with the business community and international visibility. Our aim is to train a new generation of economists, researchers, professors, and decision-makers capable of addressing the challenges of a world in crisis.

At the interface between academic research and society, AMSE disseminates economic knowledge to  non-academic audiences by:

• making the results of research accessible to everyone through its digital journal, Dialogues économiques, which publishes articles, videos and infographics,
• organizing outreach events (conferences, festivals, exhibitions), 
• supporting researchers to contributing to the public debate (journalistic writing, press relations).