General scientific orientation
Since January 2018, the Lef (Forest Economics Laboratory, UMR AgroParisTech, Inra) has joined the BETA (created in 1972 by the Université de Strasbourg, associated with the CNRS since 1985 and the Université de Lorraine since 2005) in order to become the largest research unit in economics and management of the Grand-Est region.
The unit is mainly located on five sites : Université de Strasbourg, Université de Lorraine (Nancy and Metz), AgroParisTech Nancy, Université de Haute-Alsace.
The BETA aims to :
♦ Develop pure and applied research work in the economic field ;
♦ Produce knowledge through the publication of scientific works in the best journals ;
♦ Teach : initial training through master and doctoral degrees, and training trough research ;
♦ Organization of scientific events : symposiums and workshops to disseminate results and intensify collaboration ;
♦ Participation in societal debates via expert works, scientific mediation, etc.
Fields of research
The 2018-2023 scientific project of the BETA reinforces the two historical axes of research of the laboratory :
Cliometrics and History of Economic Thought
♦ Cliometrics of growth
♦ An analytical approach of HPE : social justice, liberalisms, anticipations…
Creativity, Science, Innovation
♦ Microeconomics of creativity
♦ Networks and communities, open innovations, innovation policies
The new form of the BETA focuses also on three new axes of research :
Law and Economics
♦ Responsibility, legal disputes…
♦ Rules and regulation, Law professionals…
Behaviors, incentives and sustainability
♦ Experimental economics, behaviors, incentives, risk
♦ Development economics and sustainability
Macroeconomics and public policies
♦ European macroeconomics
♦ Energy macroeconomics
The BETA has also two supporting platforms :
The Laboratory of Experimental Economics (LEES)
♦ Support to the implementation of experiments : tests of theories, hypotheses of behavior…
♦ Educational tool to teach the economics to students
The Observatory for the Forest Economics (OLEF)
♦ Centralization of the information, data and statistics useful to forest economics
♦ Valuing the data through expert work
For more information
Publications
Check out the open access publications of BETA on HAL-AgroParisTech :
https://bit.ly/2U1APRJ
and
https://bit.ly/2Tf5Q0d
Contact details
annick.demangejaouen chez agroparistech.fr
www.beta-umr7522.fr
https://twitter.com/beta_economics
+33 (0)3 83 39 68 65
