CEPREMAP

What CEPREMAP does

CEPREMAP (Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications) is a French non-profit economic research institution headquartered at 48 boulevard Jourdan, Paris. Founded in 1967, it organizes its work around three research axes—macroeconomics, well-being economics, and finance for development—operated through three laboratories: the Institut des Politiques Macroéconomiques et Internationales (I-MIP), the Observatoire du bien-être, and the Finance for Development Lab. CEPREMAP's mission is to enrich French public debate with rigorous scientific research on contemporary economic and social policy issues including debt, tariffs, political polarization, and territorial decline.

The institution's core technological footprint consists of two free, open-source research tools. Dynare is software for solving, estimating, and simulating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) economic models, with a user-friendly interface, parameter calibration, dataset-based estimation, and a community of users spanning central banks, ministries, and academic institutions; it is sustained by an annual summer school and a working paper series. DBnomics is a web platform and API aggregating economic data from national and international institutions, delivering data in CSV, XLSX, and JSON with direct integration into R, Python, Julia, Matlab, and Eviews, and archiving revisions for real-time database construction.

CEPREMAP operates on a non-commercial basis: publications, working papers, and tools are distributed free of charge, and no financial statements are publicly disclosed. Its primary users are academic researchers and policy institutions; its research output is anchored by affiliated academics from HEC Paris, Sorbonne-Université, and the Institut des Politiques Publiques. The institution also applies NLP methods, including ChatGPT and LLMs, in selected studies such as large-scale emotion classification of French social media, though it does not develop proprietary AI models.

Name

CEPREMAP

Legal name

CEPREMAP – Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications

Website

https://cepremap.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

CEPREMAP is a French non-profit economic research institution that produces publications and two free open-source tools—Dynare (DSGE modeling software) and DBnomics (economic data platform)—serving academic researchers, central banks, ministries, and international organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Economic Research Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (54191)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Economic & Macroeconomic Research (BPAHALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Economic Research, Statistics & Policy Advisory (BPADAMAJ), Policy, Regulatory & Public Affairs Research (BPAHALAF)

Keywords

• Economic research
• Macroeconomic analysis
• DSGE modeling software
• Economic data platform
• Well-being research

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CEPREMAP is a French public research institution that produces economic research and policy analysis across three laboratories: the Institut des Politiques Macroéconomiques et Internationales (I-MIP), the Observatoire du bien-être (Well-being Observatory), and the Finance for Development Lab. It supports and distributes two key open-source research tools, Dynare (DSGE economic modeling software) and DBnomics (an economic data platform with API), and publishes research notes, working papers, opuscules, and a Macroeconomic Outlook.

Product overview

CEPREMAP (Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications) is a French research center conducting economic research across three main laboratories: the Institut des Politiques Macroéconomiques et Internationales (I-MIP), the Observatoire du bien-être (Well-being Observatory), and the Finance for Development Lab. The organization operates two main analytical tools: Dynare (open-source software for solving, estimating, and simulating DSGE economic models) and DBnomics (a data platform and API providing access to economic data from national and international institutions). CEPREMAP produces various publications including research notes, working papers (Dynare series), opuscules, and the Macroeconomic Outlook, covering macroeconomic policy, well-being, political behavior, and development finance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dynare Free open-source software that enables users to solve, estimate, and simulate various economic models, particularly dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. It provides a user-friendly interface for describing models and can perform simulations with parameter calibration or parameter estimation from datasets. Used by central banks, ministries, international organizations, and academic institutions.
• DBnomics Web platform providing access to a broad set of economic data published by national and international institutions. Offers an API delivering data in CSV, Excel XLSX, and JSON formats, with direct access from statistical software (R, Python, Julia, Matlab, Eviews). Data is available immediately upon publication and revisions are archived for real-time database construction.
• Institut des Politiques Macroéconomiques et Internationales (I-MIP) One of three research labs at CEPREMAP focused on macroeconomic and international policy research. Publishes notes and analyses on topics including French debt, US tariffs, and pension reforms.
• Observatoire du bien-être (Well-being Observatory) One of three research labs at CEPREMAP focused on well-being research. Publishes notes on ideological divides, political polarization, social ties, territorial services, and social media sentiment analysis.
• Finance for Development Lab One of three research labs at CEPREMAP focused on finance for development. Publishes analyses on international economic and financial topics, including country case studies.
• Macroeconomic Outlook Recurring PDF report series presenting international macroeconomic perspectives using data collected by DBnomics.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability2 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• DBnomicscoreTechnology or IntegrationDBnomics is an economic data platform developed to provide wide access to economic data from national and international institutions. CEPREMAP supports this tool as one of its two main research tools. The platform offers API access compatible with R, Python, Julia, Matlab, and Eviews.
• Finance for Development LabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFinance for Development Lab (findevlab.org) is one of the three research labs operating under CEPREMAP's umbrella, focused on finance for development research. It operates as an affiliated entity with its own website and research outputs.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• France Stratégie: France Stratégie is a French public policy research institution attached to the Prime Minister's office, producing evaluations of public policies, structural reforms, and long-term economic outlooks. Like CEPREMAP, it serves French decision-makers with rigorous economic and social research notes, and competes for the same policy-adjacent audience.
• IfW Kiel (Kiel Institute for the World Economy): IfW Kiel is a German economic research institute with strong emphasis on international macroeconomics, trade, and policy advice. It is comparable to CEPREMAP in combining applied macroeconomic modeling (analogous to Dynare) with policy-oriented publications aimed at European decision-makers.
• DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research): DIW Berlin is a German economic research institute producing applied macroeconomic, labor, and well-being research with policy impact in Germany. It is closely comparable to CEPREMAP in research scope (macroeconomics, social policy, applied econometrics) and in working paper/output cadence for European policy debate.
• Sciences Po – LIEPP & Department of Economics: LIEPP and the Sciences Po Economics Department produce rigorous empirical research on public policy, political economy, and well-being — closely overlapping with CEPREMAP's policy evaluation and well-being research themes, and sharing affiliated researchers (PSE/Sciences Po researchers appear in CEPREMAP notes).
• NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER is the largest U.S. economic research organization, known for its working paper series, macroeconomic modeling, and policy evaluation. Comparable to CEPREMAP in its working paper–centric model (e.g., CEPREMAP's Dynare working paper series), macroeconomic focus, and role as a hub for empirical economic research.
• Bruegel: Bruegel is a leading European economic think tank producing policy analysis on European macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and well-being questions. It directly competes with CEPREMAP's i-MIP and Observatoire du bien-être for the European policy-research audience and citation impact.
• CEPR – Centre for Economic Policy Research: CEPR is an international network of economists producing working papers and policy discussion papers on macroeconomics, finance, and political economy. It is comparable to CEPREMAP in its working-paper-driven research model and its emphasis on cross-European economic policy analysis that feeds academic and central-bank usage.
• OFCE – Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques: OFCE is a French economic research centre hosted at Sciences Po that produces macroeconomic forecasts, policy evaluation, and applied economic studies. It directly parallels CEPREMAP's macroeconomic forecasting (Macroeconomic Outlook), policy research notes, and French policy evaluation work, serving overlapping media and policy audiences.
• RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research: RWI is a German Leibniz-association economic research institute producing applied studies on labor, education, and public finance. It mirrors CEPREMAP's applied-economics, policy-evaluation posture and the European public-sector research funding model.

Broad incumbents

• Banque de France Research / DGSE-DSEE: Banque de France's research division produces macroeconomic forecasting, DSGE modeling, and economic studies that feed monetary policy decisions — directly overlapping with CEPREMAP's i-MIP macroeconomic and DSGE-related work (Dynare). As a central bank it is broader in mandate but a key user of the same methodological toolkit and audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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