From 1 January 2007 until early 2012 the LED was made up of three teams: Economic Thought and Historical Economics, Power, Institutions, Territories, and Banking & Finance. For the five-year period of 2014-2018, as requested by all of the institution’s researchers in economics, LED added an International Political Economics team, which was part of the ERASME laboratory (not an economics laboratory), as well as management lecturers who were not yet affiliated with any laboratory.

The research carried out by the LED falls into a variety of categories:

Theoretical

• Decision theory
• Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
• Political economic theory
• Economic theory of conflict

Empirical

• Econometrics of energy and raw materials
• The labour market
• International trade

Historical

Particularly within its dedicated research area (HPE/HFE, see below)

Expertise in public authority management

• Economics of banking
• Economics of education

Research groups

• Banking & finance
• History of economic thought and the history of economics
• Public Policy
• Management
• Political and institutional economics