The Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne is a joint research unit (UMR 8174) created on 1 January 2006 under the supervision of the CNRS, the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  and the IRD.

Since 1 January 2024, the CES is headed by Stephane Zuber. The former directors of CES were Cuong Le Van (2006 – 2009), Jean-Marc Tallon (2010 – 2013), Lionel Fontagné (2014 – 2018) and Agnieszka Rusinowska (2019-2023).

The laboratory is structured around 3 main research themes, bringing together 94 researchers and teacher-researchers, 19 emeritus professors and 120 doctoral students, who work on related topics and sub-disciplines.

The 3 research themes are:

• Interactions and behaviours
• Sustainable globalization
• Institutions and regulations

Each theme consists of 2 or 3 scientific programs which bring together colleagues working on the same sub-disciplines in economics.

Sorbonne Economics Centre has an internal Scientific Committee, made up of one representative from each theme, whose role is to stimulate scientific interaction between the themes. The Scientific Committee supports the CES management in steering the laboratory’s scientific policy and promotes scientific cooperation between the research themes. This Committee helps in the drafting of the scientific project, organizes the annual call for projects, the CES Days and the young talents seminars. It proposes job profiles and promotes applications to the CNRS.

Since 2018, several annual transversals actions have been organized at the Center d’Economie de la Sorbonne, in particular:

• Calls for research projects at CES (AAP-CES) – with particular attention given to transversal projects (involving permanent members and Ph.D. students from different scientific programs of the CES), interdisciplinary, and involving young teacher-researchers and researchers of CES and/or recently arrived at CES.
• CES Research Days (transversal) (2018 – 2022 programs).

Sorbonne Economics Centre has 24 seminars:

• Sorbonne Finance Seminar
  Twice a semester, Tuesday from 11 a.m to 12 p.m.
  Organizer : Thomas Renault
• Cognitive Capitalism
  Once a month
  Organizers : Jean-Marie Monnier
• Circle of Epistemology of Economics
  Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
  Organizers : Annie Cot and Jérôme Lallement
• CES PhD Seminar
  Third Friday of the month from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
  Organizers : The CES PhD Seminar team
• PSSD-IELM External Seminar
  Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
  Organizers : Nouhoum Touré, Arnold Njike and Coralie Hirschi
• Political Economy
  Four times a year, Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
  Organizer : Christophe Ramaux
• Political Economy of Institutional Change (EPCI)
  Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Organizers : Jérôme Bourdieu, Elvire Guillaud and Michaël Zemmour
• Economics and Psychology
  Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Organizers : Leonardo Pejsachowicz and Charlotte Saucet
• Public Policy (S2P)
  Twice a month, Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  Organizers : François Facchini
• IELM-DD Internal Seminar
  Twice a month, Thursday from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
  Organizer : Johann Lagenbach, Nada Hazem and Léa Marchal
  
• Economic Theory Seminar
  Friday from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
  Organizers : Anna Bogomolnaia, Hervé Moulin, Emily Tanimura and Stéphane Zuber
• Discrete Mathematics, Optimization and Decision (MDOD)
  Twice a month, Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12:00
  Organizers : Michel Grabisch, Arianna Novaro and Alexandre Skoda
• Financial Modelling Seminar
  Once a month, Monday from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Organizers : Christophe Chorro, Olivier Guéant and Isabelle Nagot
• Paris Trade Seminar
  Twice a month, Tuesday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  Organizers : Johannes Boehm, Anne-Cécilia Disdier, Lionel Fontagné, Thierry Mayer and Thierry Verdier with help of Laurence Vincent
• Labor and Political Economy seminar (STEP)
  Once or twice a month, Thursday from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
  Organizers : Corinne Perraudin and Eric Defèbvre
• Paris Fintech and Cryptofinance Webinar
  Twice a month, Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  Organizer : Olena Havrylchyk
• Normativité environnementale face aux catastrophes climatiques.
  Once a month, Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
  Organizer : working group NECC, LabEx DynamiTe

Working Groups

• Albert O. Hirschman Seminar
  Twice a month
  Organizer : Annie Cot
• GSIELM : Graduate Students’ in International Economics and Labor Markets
  Twice a month, Monday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
  Organizers : Maxence Castiello and Heddie Moreno
  
• Working Group “Behavior”
  Once a month on Thursday from 11 a.m to 12 p.m.
  Organizers: Liza Charroin and Margherita Comola
• Working Group “Networks and Games”
  Twice a month; Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  Organizers : Jean-François Caulier and  Agnieszka Rusinowska
• Doctorissimes
  Twice a year
  Organized by Ecole Doctorale EPS (Economie Panthéon Sorbonne)
• CES Workshop on Formal and Informal Institutions for Growth and Development
  Once a year
  Organized by a committee that includes researchers from different scientific programs at CES departments

Workshops

• OSGAD – Ordered Structures in GAmes and Decisison
  Once a year
  Organizer : Michel Grabisch
• Work, Employment, Social Protection (TEMPS)
  Three times a year