PROGRAM - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Introduction
Initiated in 1979 and concentrating on modern (quantitative) economics, the European Doctoral Program (or EDP) was the first multi-university doctoral program of its kind. A testimony to its success is that it has since been emulated by several similar university networks across Europe. At Louvain, it is part of the regular economics doctoral program, but is distinct from it in that the EDP has
1. separate admissions procedure, requirements and application forms,
2. somewhat different minimum grade point average requirements (see below).
3. a mandatory stay abroad at one of the partner universities (for at least 6 months.)
Organization
The entire economics graduate program is in English, as are research seminars, theses, academic correspondence, etc.
The standard requirement for admission to the EDP is the Research Master in Economics degree from Louvain with honors (i.e. an overall grade average of at least 75% and 80% on the Research Master thesis), or a Research Master in Economics equivalent.
Applications for admission to EDP should be received not later than March 31st. Each year, during the month of April, the EDP program committee decides about the admission.
The EDP program committee also evaluates each year the progress made by each student.
Advanced stage
Students in the advanced stage at UCL do course work and follow seminars under the guidance of the faculty members associated with the EDP. They enroll in the doctoral program of the Economics School of Louvain (Graduate School of Economics) and they must choose courses within the courses offered by the three universities. In addition, doctoral students must participate to at least one research seminar per week (see below).
Students working towards a degree at Louvain should find a dissertation director and register for the "confirmation" examination. This comprises the approval of a dissertation project by the Department of Economics, as well as regular attendance and presentation of work in progress at the doctoral research seminar. Thereafter, these students are admitted to the dissertation submission procedure.
Doctoral students at the dissertation stage are required to attend two research seminars per week.
There are four research seminars:
Economic Theory Seminar
Econometrics Seminar
Mathematical Programming Seminar
IRES Research Seminar
Each of them meets every week during the academic year. Research seminars are presented mostly by guest speakers from other universities, but also by local people. Whenever possible, manuscripts are distributed before or during the seminar. Attendance of the seminar(s) related to a student's research interests is an important aspect of the advanced level work under the European Doctoral Program.
Year abroad
A stay abroad at one of the partner universities is required. This stay may take place during the first year of the advanced stage, in which case it should last one-year, and include second-year course work at the host institution. Alternatively, this stay may take place the years after and then extend over a minimum of 3 months.
Research Activities
The main research interests of the faculty involved in the European Doctoral Program are very broad and include:
Game theory and its economic applications; Public economics, political economy and social choice; Industrial organization and imperfect competition; Economics of uncertainty; General equilibrium theory; Microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics.
Non- and semi-parametric, Bayesian and simulation-based methods of inference in econometrics; Computational techniques (Monte Carlo, bootstrapping); Applications of econometrics to finance, micro and macro data.
Macroeconomic dynamics and growth theory; labor economics; Welfare economics; Economics of Inequality and Poverty.
These research activities are conducted at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, CORE, and at the Department of Economics (ECON). The faculty members' web pages may be consulted via these links.
Fees
Tuition for first year students
amounts to 835 EUR.
For more info, see http://www.uclouvain.be/1468.html
EDP Committee
VANNETELBOSCH Vincent, EDP director
VANDENBUSSCHE Hylke, Graduate director
BELLEFLAMME Paul
D'ASPREMONT Claude
WAUTHY Xavier
Professors
AGRELL Per, Supply chain management, network regulation
BAUWENS Luc, Econometrics and statistical methods
BELLEFLAMME Paul, Industrial organization
BODART Vincent, Macroeconomics
BOUCEKKINE Raouf, Dynamic economics, macroeconomics, growth theory
BRÉCHET Thierry, Environmental economics
CASSIERS Isabelle, Macroeconomics and economic history
DAVILA Julio, Economic theory, game theory, macroeconomics
DEHEZ Pierre, Economic theory
DEJEMEPPE Muriel, Labour economics and econometrics
DE LA CROIX David, Macroeconomics, dynamics models of labor market, growth theory
DOCQUIER Frédéric, Population Economics
GIOT Pierre, Financial econometrics
HAFNER Christian, Financial econometrics and applied nonparametric statistics
HINDRIKS JEAN, Public economics and political economy
LAURENT Sébastien, Financial Econometrics, computational econometrics
MANIQUET François, Microeconomics, social choice theory, public economics
MARIANI Fabio, Economic growth and development, political economy
MAULEON Ana, Game theory, social choice and welfare economics, industrial organization
NYSSENS Marthe, Development economics, social economics
PARIENTE William, Political economy
POILLY Céline, Monetary economics
PEETERS Dominique, Economic geography and regional economics
THOMAS Isabelle, Economic geography and regional economics
SCHOKKAERT Erik, Public economics, welfare economics
VAN BELLEGEM, Statistics and econometrics
VAN DER LINDEN Bruno, Labour economics
VANDENBERGHE Vincent, Education economics
VANDENBUSSCHE Hylke, International trade, trade policy and tax competition
VANNETELBOSCH Vincent, Microeconomics and game theory
WAUTHY Xavier, Industrial organization and economies of education
Professors Emeritus
D'ASPREMONT Claude, Game theory, social welfare theory, public economics
DE VILLE Philippe, Macroeconomics
DE VROEY Michel, History of economic analysis
DRÈZE Jacques, Economic theory, econometrics
EECKHOUDT Louis, Decisions under risk, health economics
GABSZEWICZ Jean, Economic theory, industrial organization
GINSBURGH Victor, Economic theory, cultural economics
MERTENS Jean-François, Economic theory and game theory
MOUCHART Michel, Statistics, econometrics
PESTIEAU Pierre, Public economics, social insurance, population economics
SIMAR Léopold, Statistics, production frontier
THISSE Jacques, Imperfect competition, spatial and regional economics
TULKENS Henry, Environmental economics, public economics
WEISERBS Daniel, Macroeconomics
