Teaching

University of Luxembourg:

Microéconomie 1 (Year 1): This is the Micro-101 course of our BSc Economics, which I teach in French!!! All the basic concepts of microeconomic analysis (preference representation, Walrasian demand function, technology, profit maximization, cost functions, competitive equilibrium, Pareto optimality, etc.) are covered over the course of 45 sessions. It is also, for most economics students, their first exposure to the mathematical formalism used in the discipline. 

Political Economy (Year 3): Teaching my favorite topic!!! Theo objective is to provide some background, cover the basic models, and introduce more recent theoretical and empirical work, on the following topics: the organization of government (bureaucratic and legislative policy making, courts, etc.); the main political factors of policy making (electoral accountability, self-interests, political parties); intergovernmental relations (federalism, international cooperation); and the impact of institutions on economic policy.

Advanced Microeconomics (Master): This is the core microeconomics course of the (research) MSc in Quantitative Economics and Finance. I teach the second half (30 sessions) on the basic tools of game theory and mechanism design, and their use in applications. 

Political Economy / Recursive Methods (PhD): These courses are introductions to political economic theory (collective choice, electoral competition, legislative bargaining), and to the recursive approach to dynamic microeconomic analysis. The main goal is to provide students with sufficient knowledge to be able to read (and understand) the recent literature and apply those methods to their own research projects. 

Job Market Seminars (PhD): The aim of this course, organized by my colleague Pierre Picard, is to prepare PhD students to the academic job market for economists (seminars, interviews, CVs, etc.)