Course list
APPLIED ECONOMICS SUB-TRACK
■ Fundamental course :
ECOI31142 Économie Managériale or
ECOI31143 Business Economics
It is possible to replace at most one of the elective courses with a research UV in economics under the supervision of a professor from the department, with the approval of the coordinators of the track.
ESSEC students who participate in exchange programs with partner universities can validate at most one course in economics in the partner institution, provided that the course complies with the quality standards of the department of economics. The student who applies for this equivalence should provide a detailed syllabus of the course, and the final grade. The department examines the syllabus and decides whether to accept or not the demand of equivalence.
The pre-requisite for acceptance to the Applied Economics option of the Economics Track is passing the following courses with a minimum grade of 10/20: ECOI31080/081 and IDSS31080/081 for AST students, or ECOI21020, ECOA21030 and IDSS21020/30 for ASC students. Students interested in the Applied Economics option should prepare an application file consisting of
• a motivation letter
• a CV
• a transcript of grades
Successful completion of the economics track requires passing the required courses of the track as well as five of the electives with a grade higher than or equal to 12/20.
■ 5 courses to choose among the following:
ECOA31226 Analyse de Conjoncture
ECOI31305 Business History
FINM31162 International Finance or FINM31163 Finance internationale
IDSS31160 Introduction à l’économétrie or IDSS31161 Introduction to Econometrics
IDSS31267 Financial Econometrics
ECOI31260 Économie de la santé
ECOI31271 Game Theory
ECOI31253 International Economics
ECOA31201 Labor Economics and Policy
ECOA31123 Growth and Development
ECOA31157 Monnaie et Banque
ECOA31303 Nobel Ideas in Economics
ECOA31205 Environmental Economics
ECOI31307 Digital Economics
ECOA31129 Asian Economies
ECOS31305 Economics of Financial Intermediation
RESEARCH SUB-TRACK
The Research option allows students to follow all courses in the first year of the ESSEC PhD program in economics. The students following the research option can also obtain the degree Master Recherche Économie et Finance (M2) from CY Cergy Paris University in addition to their Grande École degree. Depending on their performance, the students may continue their studies in the second year of the PhD in Economics at ESSEC or apply for international PhD programs.The admission in the Research Option is subject to regulations of the ESSEC PhD program.
For more details, please see the program website.
The selection process takes place before the end of April for the academic year that follows. Preparation of the application may require several weeks (GRE or GMAT scores, letters of recommendation, transcripts…).
After admission, an advisor from the economics department will advise the student in the design of his/her curriculum and provide help with the professional orientation. The requirements for the successful completion of the research option will closely follow the rules set for ESSEC research master programs. The validation of the curriculum will be done according to the rules set by the management for all MiM programs (research master).