MASTER'S DEGREE IN ECONOMICS

Public economics and the environment

COURSE PRESENTATION MEETING:

The meeting will take place on February 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. in Lecture Hall 319.

You can watch this meeting via video conference:

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Faced with growing pressure from human activities on the environment, our societies are called upon to resolve difficult trade-offs. These involve explicit costs and diffuse damage, but also benefits that are unevenly distributed among actors and generations. Economic analysis aims to assist public, associative, and private decision-making in this area. This program provides in-depth knowledge of environmental and natural resource economics, as well as public economics, i.e., the economic study of collective choice processes. These are two complementary branches of economics, on the basis of which economists can formulate proposals that are both economically effective and politically acceptable. The program is supported by a team of professors and researchers specializing in these issues, who are members of the Montpellier Center for Environmental Economics.

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Economic assessment and adaptation to climate change

Around a central core of evaluation methods, various themes have been introduced over time, notably to address the issues of consultation and policy acceptability, as well as behavioral economics to understand endogenous incentives in the field of environmental policy. In addition to developments related to the introduction of sustainable development and integrated and participatory policies, the urgency of climate change issues has recently generated new needs.

The M1 courses are largely shared with the Public Economics and Environment track, as well as with the major or several tracks in terms of econometrics and multivariate analysis tools. In particular, the M1 program includes an application exercise spread over two semesters and common to the entire major, aimed at empowering students to analyze an issue and make operational use of econometric tools. This exercise, known as PIR (individual research project), has been successfully implemented for the past five years.

Specific modules on adaptation and assessment are integrated into the M2 program, with significant overlap with the Health Systems Economics track for assessment courses and the EPE, Energy Economics, and Ecodéva tracks for environmental issues.

Presentation of the training course on the Faculty of Economics' YouTube channel:

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Energy savings

Created in 1992 by Professor Jacques Percebois, the Energy Economics program at the University of Montpellier has been training applied economists specializing in energy issues for over thirty years. It provides students with the skills they need to understand the challenges and anticipate the consequences of the structural transformations facing the energy sector: decarbonization and decentralization of production methods, changes in market models and energy pricing, development of new energy uses, etc. 

The Master's program maintains close ties with public and private stakeholders in the energy sector, who regularly participate in conferences, professional seminars, and consulting projects, enabling students to apply their skills to meet the sector's specific needs.

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Healthcare economics

The Health Systems Economics program is part of the Master's Degree in Economics offered by the Faculty of Economics, in the field of Law, Economics, and Management.

The program focuses on economic issues in healthcare systems. An aging population and technical advances in healthcare are leading to major changes in the organization of care and the financing of healthcare systems. These changes require a more integrated definition of patient pathways and trajectories and the emergence of new players and tools for regulating healthcare provision.

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Digital economy

The Digital Economy Program offers enhanced skills in the organization of telecommunications, Internet, and media markets, digital business strategies, and regulatory frameworks applicable to digital markets.

This program involves professors and professional lecturers specializing in digital economics. The courses and seminars provide a wide range of technical skills, particularly in data processing and analysis, as well as in-depth knowledge of the strategies implemented by digital players: traditional telecommunications, Internet, and media companies, online service platforms, and social networks.

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Economics and psychology

A course designed to train experimentalists/behavioral scientists capable of managing an experimental project from its conception to its practical implementation, whether in the laboratory or in the field.

Students will be involved in experimental projects and will be encouraged to carry out their own projects. The training is both theoretical and practical.

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Mediterranean Farming System Design for a Sustainable Food System (MIDAS)

The MIDAS course follows on from intensive training provided since 2010 by CIHEAM-IAMM in partnership with several Mediterranean agricultural research and teaching institutes and with the global FSD (Farming System Design) network. More than 300 international participants have been trained in this context. Until now, these intensive courses have been designed to train young scientists in the analysis and evaluation of the sustainability of agricultural systems using integrated approaches. The originality of the MIDAS program, which will draw on several teaching aids and the network of researchers mobilized as part of the intensive training courses, will be to evolve to address issues related to the design of agricultural systems based on food and climate change challenges and to give prominence to the role of diversity (in terms of cropping systems, farms, and actors in the field) in improving the resilience of these systems' food-producing function in the face of climate change and market uncertainties.

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Territorial Agricultural Development, Environment, and Modeling (DATEM)

This course responds to a request from the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and the Faculty of Agronomy at the Lebanese University to train engineers in the new challenges already facing Lebanon: resource scarcity, climate change, and market instability marked by significant regional tensions. Two important components relate to skills that have been lacking in Lebanon until now: (i) modeling agricultural systems to design systems that are resilient to climate uncertainties and the socio-economic context, and (ii) integrating environmental issues into the evaluation of agricultural system performance. This course is particularly important for students from the southern Mediterranean (and more specifically Lebanon) as it is unique in this field (multi-criteria analysis through modeling, territorial agricultural development, environment). This program is designed to respond to the restructuring of the agricultural sector in the southern Mediterranean, with the establishment of regional extension centers, and to better match the profiles of future engineers working for ministries of agriculture and local authorities. >> Learn more

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Economics - Political Science "Governance of Companies and Territories in Transition"

The dual-discipline Master's program in economics and political science entitled "Governance of Societies and Territories in Transition" (GSTT) is a continuation of the dual-degree program in economics and political science, created in 2021 at the University of Montpellier, which offers students high-level training in these two disciplines. As an extension of this, the Master's program is open to students who have received a solid education in the social sciences, particularly in economics and political science. It will prepare students for careers in the future or in evolving sectors.

The content of the Master's degree in Economics and Political Science has been designed with a view to the major challenges that are transforming the organization of our societies and territories: energy and ecological transitions, transportation and mobility, health, digital technology, etc., but also democratic and cultural transitions and institutional developments.

This multidisciplinary Master's program, unique in France, brings together teams from the economics and political science departments at the University of Montpellier in a balanced way.

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