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“The formation of economic and territorial disparities between European
regions was my first research interest during my PhD. Why are
there rich regions and poor regions? What can the European Union
do to decrease these disparities? I was interested in these issues
with a focus on econometric methods, i.e., all the mathematical
and statistical methods applied to economics that are used to
measure economic phenomena and quantify the relationships between
economic variables. In a current research project, I am interested
in fiscal and spending competition between French local authorities.
Are they in competition or complementary to the public good?
Supervision
of the Master’s program "Chargé d’Etudes
Economiques", which is both a professional and
an academic master’s program, represents a considerable
administrative and pedagogical workload. How should we coordinate
these courses? Which professionals should be part of the program?
Students also need help in finding professional internships,
dissertations must be supervised…
The University of Franche-Comté offers a Master Bank
- which is aimed at the banking professions, a Master e-purchasing
- in which it is the business buyers who are trained, and finally
the master that I manage. After this master’s program, students
can continue on to a PhD or work for public institutions - whose
mission is to accompany and evaluate public policy, or private
companies - mainly in research and development... ” |
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