Master in Quantitative Economics
This Master aims to train economists specializing in quantitative economics capable of developing and applying the discipline's advanced methods to various economic issues, specifically development economics and public policy. It also prepares students to integrate the Ph.D. program in Economics at the Faculty or the professional research environment, particularly that of governments and international institutions. The program extends the basic foundations acquired at the undergraduate level. It includes highly specialized training modules in quantitative economics and development economics comparable to those of Anglo-Saxon universities, leading to an academic and research career. This Master's program allows you to acquire the contemporary knowledge and tools of the discipline and how to use them to respond to practical and real problems.
Ce master vise à former des économistes spécialistes en économie quantitative capables de développer et d’appliquer les méthodes avancées de la discipline à différentes problématiques de l’économie et plus spécialement de l’économie du développement et des politiques publiques. Il prépare également à intégrer le programme de Ph.D en économie de l’université ou le milieu de la recherche professionnelle particulièrement celui des gouvernements et des institutions internationales.
Le programme prolonge les fondements de base acquis dans des formations de niveau licence en sciences économiques et d’ingénieurs. Il inclut des modules de formation hautement spécialisés en économie quantitative et en économie du développement comparables à ceux des universités anglo- saxonnes et qui débouchent sur une carrière universitaire et de recherche. Ce programme de master permet d’acquérir les connaissances et outils contemporains de la discipline et la compétence de savoir les utiliser pour répondre à des problématiques pratiques et réelle.
Yassine EL QALLI
Data Science
Yassine El Qalli is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Finance at the National Institute of statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) Rabat. He was Head of Economics and Finance Department at the Institute from 2019 to 2021. He has also made shorter research stay in Laboratory of Statistics and Processes, Université du Maine Le Mans, France. He holds a PhD in…
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Stéphane Mussard
Economics
Stéphane Mussard is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He defended his PhD in econometrics in 2004, at the University of Montpellier, France. He then held positions at the University of Montpellier I and Perpignan (research and teaching assistant), at CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg (post-doc), then associate professor at the University of Montpellier I. He is a full professor of economics at the University of Nîmes (since…
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Emmanuel TSYAWO
Economics
Emmanuel Selorm Tsyawo is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He received his PhD. in Economics from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. His dissertation bordered on the estimation of latent network structures from panel data with a focus on the spillover effects of R&D investment on firm outcomes viz. firm innovation and productivity. Thus, his training was primarily in Econometrics and Empirical Industrial…
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Jean Louis Arcand
Economics
Jean-Louis Arcand is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is the president of the Global Development Network (GDN), an international organization based in New Delhi which has been supporting research capacity-building in the Global South since 1999. He is Professor in the Department of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, where he was also Department Chair from 2017 to 2020, founding Director…
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ABDELAZIZ CHAOUBI
Data Science
Abdelaziz Chaoubi is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was an Assistant Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Casablanca (1982-1986), then a professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSAE) (September 1986 to September 2021). From 1992 to 1994, he was a teaching assistant in statistics at Laval University in Quebec, where he got his Ph.D. in statistics. He was…
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Larbi Alaoui
Economics
Larbi Alaoui is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University and Affiliate Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. His primary teaching and research interests are in microeconomic theory, decision theory, behavioral economics, game theory and experimental economics, with additional expertise in applied microeconomics and political economy.
He has published several…
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Mehdi Bartal
Economics
Mehdi Bartal is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
Before joining UM6P, he worked as an economist at Banque de France in Paris and participated in many national and European projects related to macro-finance.
His research puts strong emphasis on income and wealth inequalities, and tackles macroeconomic questions such as: why is unemployment so costly for societies and how to design appropriate labor market…
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Touhami ABDELKHALEK
Economics
Touhami Abdelkhalek is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was a full professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) for more than 30 years. He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal. He has a double specialization in Development and Growth and in Econometrics. He has been, for several years, a visiting professor to teach at the Université de…
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Marc Dubois
Economics
Marc Dubois is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He is also an Assistant Professor at University of Mayotte since 2020.
His research focuses on social choice theory, specially on issues related to social welfare/ inequality/poverty measurement. He published in academic journals such as Mathematical Social Sciences and Annals of Operations Research. He teaches two courses at UM6P: Public Choice and Social Welfare, and…
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Mohammed Abdellaoui
Economics
Mohammed Abdellaoui is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is currently “Directeur de Recherche” (Research Director) at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) and Professor of Decision Sciences at HEC Paris since 2007. He is also currently the coordinator of the «Future Risks & Behavior» research program at AIRESS (Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences), UM6P.
He…
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Ferdinand Vieider
Economics
Ferdinand M. Vieider is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is a Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Economics, Ghent University, Belgium. He is also the director of RISLαβ—the Risk, Insurance, and Savings Laboratory.
Pr. Vieider obtained his PhD in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009. He investigates the determinants of preferences, and the effects of preferences on…
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Youssef Errami
Management
Youssef Errami is a Professor of Practice at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was Director of the Institute of Government & Public Policy at the University of East London (UK) and General Director and Dean of ESC Pau Business School (France). His research focuses on managerial innovation and leadership in public and private contexts, as well as public policy management. He is the author of numerous publications in research journals,…
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Dorothée BOCCANFUSO
Economics
Dorothée Boccanfuso is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She graduated from Université Laval (PhD in Economics). She was a professor at the University of Sherbrooke for more than 15 years, where she was involved in teaching, research and administrative management in the Business School. In addition to her tenure as a full professor, she has served as Chair of the Department of Economics, Director of the PhD program in…
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Emmanuel Kemel
Economics
Emmanuel Kemel is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
After graduating in engineering, Emmanuel Kemel specialized in economics and in cognitive sciences. He worked as an expert for the French Ministry of Sustainable Development and defended his PhD in Economics (University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Since 2015, he is a CNRS researcher at GREGHEC and an affiliate professor at HEC.
His research focuses on the…
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Semester 1
- (DAT501) Mathématiques pour l'Analyse Economique
- (ECO510) Microeconomics I
- (ECO511) Macroéconomie I
- (ECO512) Econometrics I
- (ECO518) Macroeconomics of Development (I and II)
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Semester 2
- (DAT502) Statistique pour l'Analyse Economique
- (ECO515) Microeconomics II
- (ECO516) Macroeconomics II
- (ECO517) Econométrie II
- (ECO514) Microeconomics of Development (I and II)
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Semester 3
- (ECO602) Choix Publics et Bien-Etre Social
- (ECO604) Méthodes d'Evaluation des Politiques Publiques
- (ECO606) Advanced Topics in Development
- (ECO701S) Choice Theory and Behavior
- (RES606) Thematic Seminars in Quantitative Economics / Master Thesis Preparation
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Semester 4
- (RES600) PFE/Thesis