L3 Economics-Management Economics Finance Course (EF)

A. Regular track

• Start of the course: Monday, September 4th 2023, 8am, Room 106, Colbert
• Back to school meeting: to be announced

B. Magistère track

• Back to school meeting (specific to the track): Friday, September 1st 2023 (more information will soon be available on the website of Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
• Start of the course: Friday, September 1st 2023, 8.30am, Room S 16 (reception floor, on the railway station side of the building), Îlot Bernard Dubois
• Back to school meeting: to be announced

⚠️ Important information ⚠️

🗓 Academic calendar for the year 2023-2024

📝 Remember to submit your administrative registration (mandatory, with the following deadline: 05/09/2023)

ℹ More information is provided on the AMeTICE page of the programme (accessible after completing the administrative registration)

📍Locations

• Colbert (Marseille) [Google Maps | OpenStreetMap]
• Îlot Bernard Dubois (Marseille) [Google Maps | OpenStreetMap]

The EF course of the Bachelor of Economics and Management proposes the acquisition of a real field of expertise in economics and management, combining reflection and technicality.

It aims to strengthen the bases of economic reasoning, the understanding and anticipation of economic and financial phenomena with the help of theoretical and applied learning on a range of subjects or fields such as, for example, decision-making in situations of risk or uncertainty, economic growth and development, market finance, international economics and finance, by combining them with the mastery of methodological and technical tools (econometrics, mathematics, statistics).

The EF curriculum is specifically designed for further study in Masters in Economics or Management, such as: Economics, Finance or Business and Market Economics and, more broadly, for any Master's degree in the field of economics and/or finance .

The EF program pursues professionalization objectives based on the rigor of academic knowledge and reasoning proposed by teacher-researchers and the contributions of professionals from the business world.

The 3rd year in Economics and Management, Economics and Finance track is offered in two versions:

1. regular
2. Magistère.

Regular track (60 ECTS)

> Semester 5 (Fall) (30 ECTS)

• Modelling economic and financial behaviour (6 ECTS)
  • Contracts and incentives
  • Mathematics 4
• International Economics and Finance (6 ECTS)
  • International Economy
  • International Finance
• Risks and decisions (6 appropriations)
  • Economics of risk and uncertainty
  • Corporate Finance
• Introduction to Econometrics (6 ECTS)
  • Introduction to econometrics
• Computer Science S5 EF (3 ECTS)
• English 4 (3 ECTS)

> Semester 6 (Winter) (30 ETCS)

• Modelling economic and financial behaviour (6 ECTS)
  • Behavioural approaches in economics and finance
  • Labour economics
• Growth and development (3 ECTS)
• Finance (6 ECTS)
  • Market Finance
  • Financial mathematics and investment choices
• Quantitative methods and techniques (6 ECTS)
  • Econometrics of qualitative variables
  • Time series
• Computer Science S6 EF (3 ECTS)
• English 5 (3 ECTS)
• Tutored project (3 ECTS)

Magistère track (72 ECTS)

> Semester 5 (Fall) (36 ECTS)

• UE1 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • International Economy
  • International Finance
• UE2 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • Microeconomics
  • Economics of risk and uncertainty
• UE3 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • Mathematics support
  • Introduction to econometrics
• UE4 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • English
  • Information Technology
• UE5 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • Mathematics
  • Economic growth
• UE6 S5 opt magistere (6 ECTS)
  • Big Data 1: Technology, Ecology, Software and Languages
  • Applied Econometrics Project (SAS)

> Semester 6 (Winter) (36 credits)

• UE1 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • Big Data 2: Database management, SQL, noSQL
  • Big data 3: Data mining, cleaning and visualization
• UE2 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • Advanced Mathematics
  • Investigative Techniques
• UE3 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • Econometrics of qualitative variables
  • Time series
• UE4 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • Labour economics
  • Market Finance
• UE5 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • Economic policy I
  • Economic conditions
• UE6 S6 opt magistère (6 ECTS)
  • English

Note: ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.

General information on pre-requisites and on further studies in a Master

• Macroeconomics (closed/open economy, fixed/flexible prices, fixed/flexible exchange rates)
• Microeconomics (consumer, producer, equilibrium)
• Mathematics (analysis, linear algebra)
• Probability and statistics (descriptive, inferential).

The 3rd year of the Licence's degree (Bachelor's degree) in Economics and Management (Economics and Finance track) prepares students for a Master's degree in economics or finance. It does not provide the prerequisites for a Master's degree in Accounting, Control and Audit: other programmes offered by the Faculty of Economics and Management are more suitable.

Who can apply?

• for those who have completed a Bachelor's degree in "Economics and Management" at Aix-Marseille University or in another French university: entry into the programme is granted by right
• for students who have validated a level equivalent to a Licence 2 in Economics or in Economics-Management (Licence 2 in Economics, DUT, CPGE, etc.): a teaching commission evaluates the applications, in particular on the basis of the prerequisites mentioned above as well as on the basis of the students' Master's projects.
  • note for foreign students (outside the European Union, the European Economic Area, Andorra or the Swiss Confederation) holding a foreign diploma (except for exchange programmes): please read carefully the "Foreign students" page.

How to apply?

Apply at the time of admissions on the dedicated procedure.

No application will be evaluated outside the dedicated platforms.

It is possible to complete the third year abroad, for the first semester, the second semester or the whole year. See more details on the "international student mobility page".

Optional and enhanced internships are possible in each year of the Bachelor of Economics and Management.

Tutored projects and independent work, alone or in groups, are proposed every semester (except semester 5) and contribute to the evaluation of the skills acquired during the training.

Teaching volume

• Lectures: 332 hours
• Tutorial: 156 hours

Graduates can continue their studies in Master of Economics or Finance.