Master 2 - Master of Economics

Pedagogical objectives

• The objective of this master's degree is to provide a general curriculum in economics at the research level, allowing for a continuation into a PhD program.
• The M2 is entirely optional, allowing students to build, under the supervision of the faculty members, their own specific curricula adapted to their personal research agenda. Some will choose to specialize fully in one of the three fields of excellence of the Master's degree (1. Trade, Geography and Development Economics 2. Public and Behavioral Economics 3. Advances and Challenges in Macroeconomics). Others will choose more diversified and original combinations, allowing cross-fertilization between areas that are treated in a conventional way independently.
• The Research Master thesis will allow students to demonstrate their ability to conduct independent, original, and innovative scientific research. To this end, they will mobilize all the skills acquired during their master's degree.

Working environment

• 2 research laboratories at the ENS : the Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP), which combines sociology, history and political science; and the Institutions et Dynamiques historiques de l'économie et de la société (IDHES) laboratory, which develops a multidisciplinary approach to economic activities and the institutions that structure them; and then, the Centre d'Economie de Paris-Saclay (CEPS), focusing on 3 main themes (economic theory, macroeconomics and applied economics).
• 1 research laboratory at the Faculté Jean Monet: the Research Center in Economics & Management (RITM) takes a multidisciplinary approach to a wide range of subjects linking economics and management.

For more information on the Master of Economics 2, see the Université Paris-Saclay website.