Organization Profile
Toulouse School of Economics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Organization Overview
The Toulouse School of Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences (TSE) is a world-renowned center for research and education hosting more than 150 international faculty including Jean Tirole, 2014 Nobel laureate in Economics. TSE is one of the very best institutions in research and teaching in France. It trains international students at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels.
- The Economics Department of TSE has emerged as one of the best economics departments in Europe, ranked among the top three beneficiaries in economics of the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants. On the wider scale, TSE today ranks 8th economics department worldwide according to the RePEc ranking. TSE is particularly renowned for its scientific contributions in industrial economics, finance, energy and climate economics, and econometrics.
- TSE also hosts an interdisciplinary research department, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), whose cross-frontier scientific program brings together ten scientific disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences: anthropology, biology, economics, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology.
- The Department of Mathematics and Statistics of TSE is a small but also top-ranked internationally. Its researchers have strong interactions with the other departments and develop applicable mathematics to economics, finance, and social sciences. Topics include operations research, the mathematics of finance, statistics, econometrics, game theory, optimization, probability, calculus of variations and PDE. It plays an important role to animate the Artificial Intelligence initiative in Toulouse and is in close interaction with the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse. The mathematical tradition of Toulouse is well-established and goes back at least to Pierre de Fermat.
TSE is based in the city of Toulouse on the Garonne river in south of France. Toulouse is called the pink city for its brick. It is halfway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountain range. It is among the most renowned French academic centers outside Paris, in rankings and size. Toulouse is the 'capital' of the European aerospace industry.
Organization History
The origins of TSE can be traced back to the early 1980s, when the prominent economist Jean-Jacques Laffont chose to return from Harvard to his home town of Toulouse to build a new economics department, gathering leading peers with a shared commitment to scientific excellence.