tailieunhanh - Toulouse School of Economics - TSE: Economics: a “living art” in Toulouse

One warning here for foreign students: We don’t suggest you to get a Fulbright scholarship or something similar which requires you to go back to your home country after you obtain your . This not only decreases your value on the job market in USA to zero (simply because you have to go back), but also adversely affects your bargaining power with the institutions in your home country. If a Fulbright (or a similar) scholarship are your only means of getting your . then it’s your decision; if you have several alternatives, avoid this option if possible. . | Toulouse School Economics of Economics - TSE I a Ịịvmg art in Toulouse An education program supported by a top worldwide economics department Íí The origins of the Toulouse School of Economics TSE can be traced back to the early 1980s when Jean-Jacques Laffont began gathering economists with a common ambition of scientific excellence together in Toulouse. In 1990 the Toulouse economists created the Institut d Economie Industrielle IDEI and began to establish long-term partnerships with corporations and develop innovative research topics that contributed to establishing the reputation of economists based in Toulouse. In 2007 a new step was taken when the French government and the Academy of Sciences chose TSE as one of 13 Réseaux Thématiques de Recherche Avancée across all fields enabling the creation of a private foundation the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation - Toulouse School of Economics. This Foundation is building an endowment in order to secure long-term financing for a research centre that will attract students and researchers from all over the world. This economics group now gathers together around 160 senior and junior researchers affiliated with various research institutions University of Toulouse EHESS CNRS INRA and about 100 doctoral students 70 international . We are now building on Jean-Jacques Laffont s project by expanding and restructuring our undergraduate and graduate programs. Jean Tirole Chairman of the Board of Directors - Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation Paul A. Samuelson Massachussets Institute of Technology Professor of Economics Nobel Prize 1970 The Toulouse economics unit has become really outstanding in recent years at the level of French economics at the level of European economics and at the level of world economics. Eric Maskin Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Professor of Economics Nobel Prize 2007 The launching of TSE will consolidate and enhance Toulouse s position as one of the world s great centers of research and teaching .