Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Tuesday from 13:30 to 15:30 at 109 Marais 511

The course is taught in English.

The objective is to provide third-year students with a course allowing them to mobilize different techniques and models they have been exposed to during their undergraduate studies, putting them to use for the analysis of a public policy issue along the lines of what they would be asked to do in a public office or the "public policy" department of a consultancy firm.

For the Bachelor : Business Engineering :

For the Bachelor in Economics and Management :

For the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering :

For the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering :

The first session of the course will be devoted to the presentation of the course's general objectives and teaching method. Students will then join groups of 3 to 4 members; each group will then choose a subject on which it will work for the rest of the semester. Each group will be tutored and will meet with the teaching team each week, and will be asked to deliver several intermediate work reports (literature review, data analysis report, etc) leading up to the delivery of a final report that will be presented in front of an expert committee (university professors specialized in the chosen field, potentially joined by members of a public office/consulting experts).
Several potential subjects are listed below:
• Secondary education (registration methods, inequalities, student assessment and achievement, segregation, etc)
• Pensions and social integration
o Pension sustainability, reform of the pension system, etc.
o Introduction of a universal income
• Employment (globalization, technological change, youth unemployment, employee treatment at digital platforms, etc)
• Environment (carbon tax, consumption and production behaviour, etc)
• Mobility (urban toll, public transport, company car taxation, etc)
• Health (hospital funding, health insurance, etc)
• Housing
• Taxes and inequality (succession rights, wealth tax, etc)

During each course session, each student group will meet with a member of the teaching team so as to present their results regarding the intermediary report they are currently working on (depending on the chosen subject, each group will work on two to three intermediary reports during the semester, as well as a final report, along an agenda that will be decided at the beginning of the semester). The teaching team will guide the students, sometimes playing the role of potential protagonists that an economist working on a public policy subject might have to interact with: chief of staff of the public office, stakeholder, member of another public office opposed to the considered reform, senior member of the consultancy team in charge of the project, etc.
The teaching method described above makes participation to the course sessions compulsory.

Each report (intermediary reports and final report) will be graded, for a total of 75% of the final grade. The final grade will also depend on the students' participation to the different meetings, as well as the quality of their final presentation (25% of the final grade).

The course does not use a reference book, but will rely of a bibliography that will be communicated to the students depending on the chosen subject.