Principal activities

The laboratory brings together economists, mathematicians, and organization specialists interested in theoric and applied modelization from a micro-economic angle. The laboratory's members mostly belong to the CNRS or the Ecole Polytechnique, but some of them also belong to the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) and to different universities (by agreement or association).

The main research fields concern :

mathematical methods: optimization, game theory;
economic policy : collective choice, environmental and urban economics, public economics;
firms and markets: industrial organisation, risk analysis, and crisis management.
For each one of these research fields, the laboratory is in contact with the international scientific community, and collaborates with several foreign universities :

- University of Louvain-la-Neuve (CORE),
- London School of Economics,
- Montreal Cirano
- Leontief Center of St-Petersburg,
- University of California in Santa Barbara (Department of Applied Probability and Statistics),
- University of New York in Stony Brook (Institute for Decision Sciences, founded by a member of the laboratory),
- University of Delaware (Disaster Research Center),
- University of Cambridge (Department of Land Economics),
- University of Dortmund (Institut für Raumplannung),
- Universidad de Grenada (Departamento de Mathematica Aplicada),
- University of Leiden (Department of Public Administration),
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, USA),
- University of Tokyo (Institute of Social Sciences),
- University of Chili in Santiago (Department of Applied Mathematics),
- University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School),
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory),
- University of Tel-Aviv (Department of Mathematics).

Beyond this scientific recognition, most of the laboratory's members do expert evaluations with public and private organizations, such as the World Bank, the OCDE, the European Commission, ministries, firms, and professional associations.

The Laboratoire d'Econométrie is a combined unit of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Ecole Polytechnique. In the CNRS, it is affiliated to the Department of Human and Social Sciences (37), as well as to the Department of Engineering Sciences (07).