Presentation
The Bureau of Theoretical and Applied Economics (Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée – Beta) is a joint research unit (UMR 7522) of the University of Strasbourg, the Université de Lorraine, the CNRS, INRAE, AgroParisTech and the Université de Haute-Alsace. In 2024, it was the only economics and management joint research unit in the Grand Est region. It is based at three sites in Nancy and Strasbourg (and to a lesser extent in Metz and Mulhouse). The laboratory was founded in 1972 at the University of Strasbourg and has been associated with the CNRS since 1985, with the Université de Lorraine since 2005 and with INRAE since 2018. It covers a wide range of activities, involving both fundamental aspects and applications of research in economics and management.
It is made up of over 200 researchers (professors, research directors, senior lecturers, research fellows, engineers and technicians, doctoral students, etc.), a dozen administrative support staff, and around fifty visiting researchers.
Research Topics
Cliometrics and the History of Economic Thought
This research group focuses on questions related to economic history, both from a quantitative (through the reconstruction of long series) and qualitative (through text analysis, etc.) perspective.
Behaviour, Incentives, Coordination, Interactions
This research group is interested in issues related to behavioural economics, risk and/or uncertainty.
It includes the Laboratory for Experimental Economics Strasbourg (Laboratoire d'économie expérimentale de Strasbourg – LEES).
Economics of Law
This research group focuses on an economic analysis of legal rules.
Macroeconomics (MACRO)
This research group studies the macroeconomic aspects related to European policy, on the one hand, and to the analysis of the natural resources of energy and climate transition on the other.
Creativity, Science, Innovation (CSI)
This research group studies the economic and managerial aspects related to change. It focuses on the creative process, the innovation process (including innovation protection), and innovation networks.
Environment, Forest, Energy (EFE)
This research group is interested in the economics of the environment and natural resources.
Major events and works
- DOS SANTOS FERREIRA Rodolphe (2024) « Malinvaud’s and Keynes’s unemployment typologies: do they coincide? », European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 13., HCERES (A), CNRS (1)
- FRÈRE Quentin, VÉDRINE Lionel (2024) « Does decentralization theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation? », Regional Studies, 1-26., HCERES (A), CNRS (2)
- ABI SAAD Elie, TREMBLAY Nathalie, AGOGUE Marine (2024) « A multi-level perspective on innovation intermediaries: The case of the diffusion of digital technologies in healthcare », Elsevier, Technovation, 102899, HCERES (A), CNRS (2), FNEGE (2)
- BADOUARD Vincyane, SCHMITT Sylvain, SALZET Guillaume, GAQUIERE Thomas, ROJAT Margaux, BEDEAU Caroline, BRUNAUX Olivier (2024) « LoggingLab: An R Package to Simulate Reduced-Impact Selective Logging in Tropical Forests Using Forest Inventory Data », Ecological Modelling, 487, 110539., HCERES (A), CNRS (1 plus)
- 32econférence de l'Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS 2023)
- 39eJournées de Microéconomie Appliquée (JMA 2023)