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The QEM, also known as Erasmus Mundus QEM, is an Erasmus Mundus post-graduate Master's degree offered by a consortium of four universities: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (co-ordinating institution), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universität Bielefeld, and the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia with a network of Associated Partners consisting of international academic institutions as well as public and private companies. The QEM students are required to study at two of the four participating universities of the Consortium. This academic mobility enables students to benefit from the diversity in strengths of each university on a wide range of issues, and to meet and work with professionals from various backgrounds. In particular, it provides the students the opportunity to learn and integrate with different European cultures. Upon successfully completing the programme, students are awarded a QEM Joint Degree from the partners of the consortium. The QEM consortium provides extensive career assistance to the students, including help with internships and job placement for graduates. The language of instruction is English and the partner universities also provide European language courses for graduates.

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Closely related degrees include the EMLE-European Master in Law & Economics and the EMIN - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries.

History of QEM

The Erasmus Mundus QEM - Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics (QEM) was the first European Joint Master degree in Economics was approved by the European Union in 2006.

Governance

The QEM is organised and well managed by an executive committee, joint graduate committee, and an advisory board. The executive committee meets regularly to define QEM activities and improve on the intra-consortium mobility conditions suggested by EACEA. These QEM activities are then managed by the joint graduate committee.

The advisory board is made up of Nobel Prize winners in economics and high level professional experts in the field of economics. These members include:

  • Reinhard Selten, Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, Nobel Prize in Economics 1994
  • Sir James Mirrlees, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Nobel Prize in Economics 1996
  • Edward Prescott, Arizona State University, USA, Nobel Prize in Economics 2004
  • Robert Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA
  • Aloisio Araujo, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
  • Paul Champsaur, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France
  • Annie Gauvin, Pôle emploi, Paris, France
  • Marie-Laure Michaux, Boston Consulting Group, USA
  • J. Peter Neary, University of Oxford, UK
  • Fabio Panetta, Banca d'Italia, Italy
  • Gabriel Perez Quiros, Bank of Spain, Spain
  • Agnar Sandmo, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway
  • Anne Villamil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • David Wettstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Nicholas C. Yannelis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    • Associated Partners

    The academic associated partners include:

  • Paris School of Economics
  • Université catholique de Louvain
  • ESCP Europe
  • Sciences Po
  • University of Queensland
  • Tunisia Polytechnic School
  • American University in Cairo
  • University of Tokyo
  • Zhejiang University
  • Water Resources University (Vietnam)
  • Fundação Getulio Vargas
  • Warsaw School of Economics

    • The non-academic associated partners include:

  • Banque de France
  • CIC Banque
  • ABN Amro Bank NV
  • Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research
  • Saletelligence
  • AXA group

    • References

    QEM Wikipedia
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