Missions

Institut Polytechnique de Paris is an alliance between six engineering schools (École polytechnique, ENSAE Paris, ENSTA, Télécom Paris, Télécom SudParis et l'École des Ponts). Our joint department of economics is located on the top floor of the ENSAE Paris building.

All members of the department belong to the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST - UMR 9194). 

The economy is an essential lever of today's society and understanding the phenomena that govern it at different levels is crucial for describing and analyzing the production, exchange and consumption of goods and services. Research in economics and quantitative sociology at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is characterized by a strong attachment to quantitative methods, data culture, mathematical modeling, and the constant back-and-forth between models and empirical facts to analyze concrete economic and social issues.

The research activities of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in economics and quantitative sociology are structured around four areas: 

• Economic behavior and decision-making
• Policy, institutions, and public economics
• Markets and demographics
• Methods and interdisciplinary approaches

Research areas : 

• Econometrics
  • Public policy evaluation
  • Causal machine learning
• Microeconomics
  • Economic theory
  • Experimental economics
  • Industrial organization
  • Voting
  • Incentive mechanisms
• Macroeconomics
  • International economy
  • Labor economics
  • Public finance
  • Monetary macroeconomics
• Quantitative sociology
  • Mobility and social inequalities
  • Demography
  • Socio-genomics
  • Political sociology
  • Computational social sciences