Paris School of Economics

The Paris School of Economics (PSE, in French: "L’École d’économie de Paris — EEP"), created on 21 December 2006 in Paris, France, is a French economics department. The EEP combines researchers from several institutions, including DELTA [ [http://www.delta.ens.fr/ DELTA] , Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.] and INRA. Since October 2007, the department is headed by François Bourguignon.

Foundation and organization

Inaugurated by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in 2007 and located in Paris, the PSE aims to draw staff from: l'École normale supérieure, l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), the . It is part of the French official research center, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

International standing

Its contributory economics faculties, including the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole Normale Superieure and ENSAE, are ranked between the top 40 and 73 departments worldwide by publication output of the top five scholars. [Coupe, Tom, "Revealed Performances: Worldwide Rankings of Economists and Economics Departments 1969–2000. http://www.scribd.com/doc/236930/Worldwide-Ranking-of-Economics-Departments-and-Economists] The EEP aim is to be one of the top global institutions for economic research, alongside Harvard, MIT and the London School of Economics.

Notable faculty

* Philippe Aghion
* Philippe Askenazy
* François Bourguignon
* Daniel Cohen
* Olivier Compte
* Olivier Gossner
* Roger Guesnerie
* Philippe Jehiel
* Romain Ranciere
* Thomas Piketty
* Thomas Philippon

Advisory council

*Robert Allen (Oxford University)
*Anthony B. Atkinson (Oxford University)
*Olivier Blanchard (MIT)
*Richard Blundell (University College à l'University of London)
*Graziella Caselli (Université "La Sapienza", à Rome)
*Paul David (Stanford University)
*Rodolphe Dos Santos (University of Strasbourg)
*Jon Elster (Collège de France)
*Andreu Mas Colell (University of Barcelone)
*James Mirrlees (University of Cambridge)
*Torster Persson (University of Stockholm)
*Patrick Rey (Université de Toulouse)
*Dani Rodrik (Kennedy School of Government of Harvard)
*Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
*Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)
*Viviana Zelizer (Princeton University)

References

External links

* [http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/ Paris School of Economics official website]
* [http://www.master-ape.ens.fr/ "Analyse et Politique Economiques" Graduate Program of the PSE official website]