Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) is the largest multidisciplinary university in the French-speaking world, with 80,000 students and nearly 8,000 staff on 5 major campuses meeting international standards. Owner of 90% of its property, the university is present in 9 cities, in 4 departments of the South of France. Its A*Midex University Foundation, which supports the ongoing IDEX, is helping to develop a world-class interdisciplinary higher education and research cluster. Known as a “research-intensive university”, it is home to 122 research structures linked to major national research organizations.
Aix-Marseille Université is committed to interdisciplinarity, which is at the heart of its development strategy, and has recently created 18 “instituts d’établissement” (institutes of higher education), guaranteeing bridges between research and education, and a broad international outlook. Local partnerships such as the Cité de l’Innovation et des Savoirs Aix-Marseille (CISAM), the Pôles d’Innovation Territoriaux (PIT) and the technology platforms in partnership with the CNRS and INSERM bear witness to AMU’s commitment to innovation and its contribution to the creation of societal wealth. High-quality training courses, backed up by major research teams, accompanied by measures to encourage student entrepreneurship, and the possibility for economic players to access these resources, are all levers for regional development and influence.
As a responsible university, Aix-Marseille Université makes “living well together” a priority. Its commitment to sustainable development in all its dimensions – human, environmental and patrimonial – is embodied in a number of actions and measures: a travel plan, a waste management plan, raising students’ awareness of the climate emergency and introducing a sustainable development bonus, the creation of the AMU Climate Council, as well as measures to combat sexual, sexist and homophobic harassment, the application of a master plan for the disabled, measures to combat racism and anti-Semitism, and numerous sports and festive events on campus. Widely open to the world, with 10,000 international students and more than 40 internationally-partnered degrees, AMU recently won the European Commission’s call for projects to build “CIVIS, a European Civic University” with its 9 European partners, contributing to major societal challenges with a particular focus on Africa and the Mediterranean.
Created on January 1, 2012, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) can legitimately consider, at the end of an initial period 2012-2017 largely devoted to structuring the single university, that it has met the major challenge it set itself: to successfully merge the three universities in the region and give birth to a major university of world renown.
AMU is now a research-intensive university that has forged partnerships all over the world, asserted its roots and territorial integration, and ranks among France’s top universities in the Shanghai rankings. AMU is a multi-disciplinary university structured around five disciplinary sectors spread over 17 components (faculties, schools, institutes) and one multi-disciplinary sector (including ESPE and IUT):
– Arts, Letters, Languages and Humanities
– Law and Political Science
– Economics and Management
– Health
– Science and Technology
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0 (no subscore below 5.5)
– TOEFL iBT: 78 (minimum score reading : 18 | listening : 17 | speaking : 20 | writing : 17)
– Duolingo English Test: 100
30 August 2024 – 15 January 2025
Available Courses
(Applicants must choose courses from maximum of 2 tracks only)
Licence 2 IPEM - 2nd Year Track
Programme (24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of classes)
1. Fundamentals of probability: density, moments, examples of important distributions
2. Estimation and inference: sampling, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing
3. Simple linear regression: specification issues, ordinary least squares, Gauss-Markov theorem, hypothesis testing, examples.
4. Multiple regression: linear model in matrix form, properties of ordinary least squares, hypothesis testing, instrumental variables, examples.
Licence 3 MIASHS - 3rd Year Track
Introduction to information economics: Bayesian Nash equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium
Adverse selection: the market for lemons, price discrimination
Moral hazard: insurance markets, the principal agent problem
Licence 3 IPEM - 3rd Year Track
The focus of this course is to learn how applying tools developed in Microeconomic analyses to business related decisions can lead to better business decisions.
The lecture as well as course materials will be in English.
Courses outline:
1. Basic concepts
– Economic view of behaviour
– Markets
2. Theory of the firm
– Market structures
– Pricing with market power
3. Corporate strategy : understanding
– Creating and capturing value
– Game theory (interaction between firm and market environment)
4. Making organizational decisions : incentives and contracts
The objective of this course is to integrate the academic study of international trade and foreign direct investment with the actual strategic and operational decisions of exporters and multinational enterprises. This course marries then managerial decision making in the internationally oriented firm with the conceptual tools provided by international economics.
In today’s market, almost any product can be transformed into a commodity as competitors copy successful products. Building and effectively maintaining efficient international marketing strategies are among the top priorities of high performing companies. This course explores the development of international marketing programs from the determination of objectives and methods of organization through the execution of a product or service, its positioning statement, advertising, distribution, and price policies. This course, will help students understand how to create value, to build and manage strong brands, products or services in a digital and international era.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
➢ To be familiar with the main tools used in the International marketing strategies and functions.
➢ To demonstrate knowledge in Brand positioning statements and Marketing Mix tools.
➢ To examine the international similarities and differences in marketing functions as related to the cultural, economic, political, social, and physical dimensions of the environment. U website
The need for European competition rules was recognized by the framers of the EC treaty. EC competition law goals are twofold: the promotion of integration between the Member states and the promotion of effective competition. The course will focus on the latest goal, which might be termed “the economic goal”. Main provisions of EC law (and policy) are contained in the articles 101 and 102 of the treaty on the functioning of European Union (TFEU) and in the Merger regulation. They aim at regulating firms’ behaviour in order to promote competition considering that competition improves economic welfare. The European competition law development shows a “more and more economic approach” which had an impact on the application of competition law at the European level. The main consequence that has arisen from making economic reasoning more explicit in the decision- making process has been to promote competition by protecting the competition process rather than protecting competitors. A given business practice that makes more difficult for one firm’s rivals to compete does not therefore imply that the competitive process is being harmed. Thus, in spite of the existence of competition rules, each case is different since business conducts under investigation give rise to different effect depending on the market conditions. The course will thus focus on the economic analysis of firms’ behavior alleged to be anti-competitive conduct in order to explain European making decision process in competition cases.
The course is divided in 2 parts: the first introduces the objectives of competition law and the main concepts required to understand those objectives (3 sessions), and the second part covers the main applications of competition law: coordinated practices (Art. 101), unilateral practices (Art.102, Abuse of dominant position), and regulation of mergers that are or could be detrimental to competition.
This course provides an in-depth coverage of selected topics in microeconomics. An emphasis will be given to rigorous mathematical treatment of these issues. The necessary mathematical tools will be reviewed accordingly.
The following topics will be covered:
– Review: mathematical tools for constrained optimization
– Advanced demand theory
– Information economics: moral hazard and adverse selection
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
– Solve constrained optimization problems.
– Use mathematical tools to solve selected problems in consumer theory and information economics.
– Recognize whether a problem features incomplete information and classify it within a typology of information economics problems.
Programme (24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of classes)
1. Fundamentals of probability: density, moments, examples of important distributions
2. Estimation and inference: sampling, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing
3. Simple linear regression: specification issues, ordinary least squares, Gauss-Markov theorem, hypothesis testing, examples.
4. Multiple regression: linear model in matrix form, properties of ordinary least squares, hypothesis testing, instrumental variables, examples.