Doctoral program

Language of instruction English
Duration 5 years
Program type Full-time education
Diploma National diploma

The mission of the TSE doctoral school is to train future researchers for brilliant academic careers, but also for successful careers in the professional world

Much effort is put into providing students with the highest quality training. Doctoral students are very well advised on how to best prepare for the international job market to ensure them to receive the best placement.

See our placement year by year

Application deadlines

To find out about application deadlines please see our Admissions section.

Applications must be made online on the TSE platform eCandidatures. Any application submitted outside of the dates of the recruitment campaigns will not be reviewed.

Admission and financial aids

Our ambition is to keep attracting the best students in the world. Therefore, we offer financial help for our future PhD students.
Some scholarships and grants are available at the Master 2 level.
Once the students graduate from the Master 2 ETE and continue in the PhD program, the doctoral school makes sure that they receive funding. Some positions of teaching assistant and research assistant are also available.
It usually takes 5 years for students to complete their thesis.

PhD students testimonies

      There are many more reasons to choose TSE

  TSE attracts the best researchers from around the world to Toulouse to develop the economic models and solutions needed to understand and address tomorrow's issues.
PhD students quickly become involved in scientific life by taking part in international conferences, seminars, etc.
TSE offers a large range of disciplines, enabling them to cover all fields in Economics: Behavior, Institutions and Development; Econometrics and Empirical Economics; Environment and Natural Resources; Finance; Industrial Economics;  Macroeconomics; Mathematics of Decision Making and Statistics; Public Economics; Theoretical Economics.
Doctoral students have an office close to their supervisor to facilitate interactions.
Studies are funded from the Master 2 ETE level upwards and can extend to 5 years
Visiting possibilities during studies with other partner universities

A world-class international doctoral program, training the brightest minds.

First year

The "Doctoral track" (Master 2 ETE) allows students to acquire a thorough and advanced general training in economic theory (micro, macro and econometrics) before choosing a specific area of research. During this first year, students are also given training in research techniques and work one-on-one with a faculty advisor to complete a master’s thesis that will be assessed by a board of professors.

Second year

At the end of the first year, students are admitted in the second year Advanced Research degree in Economics (MRes in Economics) on the basis of their results (courses and research work) and embark on a final year of advanced, specialized courses. Students should select 7 course topics among a list of advanced specialized courses and attend an annual research workshop (members meet on a regular basis during the year).
This intensive training should provide PhD students with a strong foundation for the writing of their thesis and for their future research career. An advisor and another faculty member assist students in the design of their plan of studies. During the second year, students choose their field(s) of specialization :

Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Econometrics and Empirical Economics
Economics Theory
Finance
Industrial Organization
Macroeconomics
Public Policy and Applied Economics

At the end of this second year, students must present some original research work (a preliminary paper) to a jury of faculty members.

Thesis years

The two or three following years are devoted to full-time research and to writing the dissertation. Students are given the opportunity to mature and develop their economist’s intuition and techniques. PhD students participate in the life of academic groups, including seminars. They also present their research work in junior seminars and international conferences and are encouraged to participate in specialized summer schools.

Job Market

Our PhD program is designed to prepare our candidates for the International Job Market.

Placement of PhD Students

2026

Amirreza AHMADZADEH: Bonn University
Javier GONZALEZ MORIN: European University Institute
Dhruv JAIN: Analysis Group, Brussels
Pau JUAN BARTROLI: Maastricht University
Young KIM: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
Tanja LINTA: Croatian Central Bank
Pablo MILENI MUNARI: Veltys
Emil MORTENSEN: Danish Economic Council
Juan PAL: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Assistant Professor)
Giovanni RIZZI: Luiss University (post-doc)
Maxim SANDIUMENGE I BOY: Institut Polytechnique de Paris – Telecom CREST
Oscar VILARGUNTER PEREZ: AMSE Marseille (Post-doc)
Ying WANG: Catolica Lisbon (1 year postdoc), University of Porto (Assistant Professor)
Andrei ZALOILO: IMF
Xin ZHANG: Compass Lexecon, Beijing

Former student on the market:

Sébastien MONTPETIT: Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 3 year postdoc

2025

Luca BENNATI: Banco de Mexico
Léa BIGNON: KU Leven
Michele BISCEGLIA: Harvard Business School
Mudit DHAKAR: Compass Lexecon
Basile DUBOIS: McGill Finance
Gyung-Mo KIM: Korea Information Society Development Institute
Gerard MAIDEU MORERA: EUI (post-doc)
Alessio OZANNE: University Vienna
Enrico Mattia SALONIA: University Tor Vergata, Rome
Wenxuan XU: NUS Business School Singapore (post-doc)
Yusuke YAMAGUCHI: Osaka University (post-doc)

Post-docs at TSE on the market:

Jean-François FOURNEL: Harvard Econ. (post-doc)
Kevin REMMY: University of Mannheim

2024

Lisa Botbol: Monash University
Luisa Carrer: ESCP, after post-doc at Bocconi
Anaïs Fabre: LMU Munich, after post-doc at IFS (1 year)
Oscar Fentanes: Carlos III
Jonas Gathen: Tilburg University, after post-doc at CEMFI
Gokce Gokkoca: Analysis Group
Johanna Joy Isman: Assurance Services International
Oscar Jara: NHH Bergen (post-doc)
Chanwoo Kim: AlixPartners
Federica Lo Polito: Frontier Economics
Moritz Loewenfeld: University of Vienna
Nicolas Martinez: Cornerstone Research
Paul Henri Moisson: Paris School of Economics
Sébastien Montpetit: Warwick (post-doc)
Esteban Muñoz: Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona)
Former students on the market:
Christophe Gaillac: University of Geneva (tenured offer)
Emil Palikot: Northeastern U. (Computer Science & Marketing Dept.)

Post-docs at TSE on the market:

Péter Bayer: UAB Barcelona
Hakan Oyzilmaz: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

2023

Hippolyte Boucher: Airbus, Marseille
Tim Ederer: Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University (Economics), preceded by a one-year Post-Doc at the Becker-Friedmann Institute, University of Chicago
Luise Eisfeld: HEC Lausanne (Finance)
Hiyu Hou: Renmin University, Beijing
Dakang Huang: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFFE), Chengdu, China
Antoine Jacquet: Post Doc at Science-Po, Paris, France (2 years)
Max Lesellier: Université de Montréal
Yaxin Li: Renmin University, Beijing
Gosia Majewska: ESSEC Business School, Paris (Economics)
José Munoz: Analysis Group, Brussels
Peter Neis: Post Doc at CERDI, Clermont Ferrand University (2 years)
Tuuli Vanhapelto: Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow (Economics)
Philipp Wangner: Mannheim University, preceded by a one-year Post-Doc at Columbia University
Li Yu: Liaoning University, Shenyang, China
Ling Zhou: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (after a two-years Post-Doc)

2022

Alae Baha - Oxford University, Sociology Dep. (Post Doc, 3 years)
Paloma Carrillo - International Labor Organization
Alipio Ferreira - 1 year postdoc at JPAL-LAC (Rio de Janeiro) and then Southern Methodist University (AP)
Alexandre Gaillard - 1 year post-doc at Princeton and then Brown University (AP)
Friedrich Lucke - Joint Research Center (JRC), European Commission, Brussels
Filip Mrowiec - Cornerstone (New York)
Celia Ruiz - Compass Lexecon
Vatsala Shreeti - Bank of International Settlments
Fernando Stipanicic - 1 year postdoc at Berkeley and then Oslo (AP)
Jun Yan - Xiamen University (AP)
Yifei Zhang - Peking University, HSBC Business School (AP)

2021

Hussein Bidawi - International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Nicolas Bonneton - University of Manheim Assistant Professor
Jacopo Bregolin - University of Liverpool Assistant Professor
Christophe Bruneel - KU Leuven Assistant Professor
Matheus De Souza Bueno - OECD
Joana Duran-Franch - Postdoc at Columbia 1 year
Jacint Enrich Moya - Postdoc at Pompeu Fabra - 3 years
Christophe Gaillac - Postdoc Nuffield College – 3 years
Jérôme Gonnot - Postdoc European University Institute – 2 years
Kunal Khainar - Bank of England
Willy Lefez - Postdoc Berlin School of Economics - 4 years
Charles Pébereau - Post doc at Stanford - 3 years
Stefan Pollinger - Sciences Po Paris Assistant Professor
Kevin Remmy - Postdoc at University of Mannheim - 5 years
Yang Yang - Nanjing University Assistant Professor
Miguel Zerecero - UC Irvine Assistant Professor
Ling Zhou - Postdoc University of Padova - 2 years

2020

Miren Azkarate-Askasua - Post-doctorate for one year at European University Institute (EUI), then Assistant Professor (University of Mannheim)
Hussein Bidawi - International Monetary Fund
Filippo D'Arcangelo - OECD
Hugues Dastarac - Banque de France
Vessela Daskalova - Assistant Professor (UC Dublin)
Alberto Grillo - Post doctorate at Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Elia Lapenta - Assistant Professor(CREST)
Emil Palikot - Post doctorate at Stanford
Christopher Sandmann - Post doctorate for one year at Princeton then Assistant Professor (LSE)
Roberto Sarkisian - Assistant Professor (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Peter Wikman - Post doctorate at Toulouse School of Economics
Yuting Yang - Assistant Professor (University of New Mexico)
Jiakun Zheng - Assistant Professor (Renmin University)

2019

Konrad Adler -Postdoctoral position with the finance group at Bonn University
Aleksandra Fridman - Economist program at the International Monetary Fund
Jakob Hennig - Visiting professor Position at the UC3M
Jasmin Fliegner - Assistant professor in Economics, University of Manchester
Claire Galez-Davis - International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Dimple Kukreja - Research Officer, Reserve Bank of India
Xavier Lambin - Assistant professor, Grenoble School of Management
Giulia Pavan - Compass Lexecon (Madrid office)
Eva Raiber - Assistant professor, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Lei Xu - Economist, Bank of Canada

2018

Yaohui Dong - Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Simon Fuchs - Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Pablo Garcia - Economist, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg
Vitalijs Jascisens - Assistant professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Department of Economics and International College of Economics and Finance)
Tannous Kass-Hanna - Economist, International Monetary Fund
Lan Lan - Assistant Professor, University of Oslo (Economics Department)
Julie Lassebie - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Tsz Kin Leung - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge (INET Institute)
Ying Liang - Lecturer, Monash University (Monash Business School)
George Lukyanov - Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique
Lucas Mahieux - Assistant Professor, Tilburg University
Serge Nyawa - Assistant Professor, Toulouse Business School (Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences)
Anastasiia Parakhonyak - Assistant Professor in Economics and Finance, Durham University (Business School)
Arnaud Philippe - Lecturer in economics, Department of economics (School of Economics, Finance and Management), Bristol University
Oleg Polivin - Junior Data Scientist, Altran
Andrés Salamanca - Postdoctoral position, University of Southern Denmark (Department of Business and Economics)
Jules Tinang - Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Ying Lei Toh - Payments Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Shuichi Tsugawa - Assistant Professor Department of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan
Shuguang Zhu - Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (School of Economics)

2017

Nordine Abidi - Economist, European Central Bank
Arthur Alik - Staff economist, Worldbank, office of chief economist Africa region
Andrii Babii - Assistant professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Constance De Soyres - Economist, International Monetary Fund
François De Soyres - Economist, World Bank
MiaoMiao Dongdon - Assistant professor, Bocconi University (Decision Science Department)
Xintong Han - Assistant professor, Concordia University
Maxime Liegey - Assistant professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota)
Christian Nguenang - Consultant, Bewell Consulting-Harwell Management
Christiern Daniel Rose - Lecturer, University of Queensland
Nassima Selmane - Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Tomar Shekhar - Research Officer, Reserve bank of India
Tuba Tuncel - Assistant Professor, HEC Montreal
André Veiga - Assistant professor, Imperial College Business School in London
Chunan Wang - Assistant Professor of Economics, Beihang University (Beijing)
Suxiu Yu - Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance

2016

Fanny Camara - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Maddalena Ferrana - Postdoctoral research associate in Values and Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Markus Gebauer - Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics/ICEF
Dong-Hee Joe - Associate Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute
Yves Le Yaouanq - Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Kun Li - Lecturer, Australia National University, Research School of Finance, Acturial Studies & Statistics
César Mantilla - Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario
Rodrigo Montes - Senior Economist, Compass Lexecon
Alban Moura - Economist, Banque centrale du Luxembourg, Research Department
Guillem Roig - Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario
Johanna Schauer - Economist, IMF
Ananya Sen - Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (Sloan)
Gang Wang - Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Timothy Yeung - Postdoctoral position of PSL Research University, hosted by University of Paris-Dauphine

2015

Luc Bridet - Lecturer, University of St Andrews
Ho Cheung Cheng - Assistant Professor, National Central University, Taiwan
Jorge Florez - Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario
Mattia Girotti - Banque de France
Sinem Hidir - Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
Laura Lasio - Assistant Professor, McGill University
Margaret Leighton - Lecturer, University of St Andrews
Julien Sauvagnat - Assistant Professor, Università Boconi
Yonglei Wang - Assistant Professor, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Qizhou (Leo) Xiong - Postdoctoral researcher, University of Magdeburg and Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

Job market at TSE

In the final year of their PhD, candidates prepare to enter the academic or private sector Job Market. To support this transition, the Placement Team organises a range of activities to help them prepare for their future careers.

Visit the dedicated webpage

Placement Officer: Mathias REYNAERT
Coordinator: Paul DIEGERT
Placement Administrator: Louise STRACHAN

ENTER (European Network for Training in Economic Research)

Members

Its aim is to foster internationally competitive research of the highest possible quality by broadening the base for competent supervision and intensive interaction towards research in Economics. Doctoral students in each of the partner universities can:

Make short visits to other universities in the network
Participate in the annual Jamboree
Present their work in seminars at universities within the network

Students thus obtain direct access to a much larger body of faculty with a wide array of research interests and can help develop professional relationships with fellow students that will enable them to become European scholars.

The Jamboree

Each year, a member of the ENTER group organises the “Jamboree”, a two-day meeting of the entire network where doctoral students and faculty meet to present their current research and socialise.

The Jamboree fosters close links between researchers, both senior and junior, pursuing work in similar directions.