Paris School of Economics

Paris School of Economics

École d'économie de Paris
Motto	La science économique au service de la société
Motto in English	Economics serving society
Type	Public
Established	2006 as an independent institution; 1988 under a different name/institution
Chancellor	Jean-Pierre Danthine
President	Esther Duflo
Dean	Jean-Olivier Hairault
Academic staff	145
Students	220
Postgraduates	180
Location	Paris , France
Campus	Urban
Website	parisschoolofeconomics.eu

The Paris School of Economics (PSE; French: École d'économie de Paris) is a French research institute in the field of economics. It offers MPhil, MSc, and PhD level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, including macroeconomics, econometrics, political economy and international economics.^[1]

PSE is a brainchild of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, where the students are enrolled primarily), the École Normale Supérieure, the École des Ponts and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and it is physically located on the ENS campus of Jourdan in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 2006 as a coalition of universities and grandes écoles to unify high-level research in economics across French academia, and was first presided by economist Thomas Piketty.

Since its foundation it has gained a certain amount of academic weight, and according to a ranking released by project RePEc in May 2020, it was ranked as the fifth-best university-level economics department in the world and first in Europe. Paris School of Economics' ranking has consistently risen since it was listed on the rankings on RePEc.^[2]