Centre de recherche en économie et gestion de Paris Nord (CEPN)

What Centre de recherche en économie et gestion de Paris Nord (CEPN) does

CEPN (Centre de recherche en économie et gestion de Paris Nord) is a French public research laboratory registered as UMR CNRS 7234 and jointly supervised by CNRS and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. The laboratory conducts critical and pluralist research in economics and management, organized around four axes: FEMEC (financialization, enterprise, management and creative economy), SANSOMI (health, society and migrations), DyCAP (dynamics of capitalism and post-Keynesian analyses), and MAFIM (applied macroeconomics, finance and globalization). It serves the academic research community, trains doctoral students, and contributes to public debate through citizen seminars and scientific mediation.

CEPN produces academic publications, working papers, and books disseminated via the HAL open archive, edits the peer-reviewed European Review of Service Economics and Management, and runs multiple seminar and webinar series (including the recently launched STREPS cycle on sustainability, technology, risks, environment and policies). It operates two locations — its Villetaneuse headquarters (99 avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément) and a secondary site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers — and maintains international research collaborations with institutions in Argentina (UNSAM), Russia (RUDN), and across Europe.

CEPN does not sell products or services. Its operating model is public research funding: institutional base support from CNRS and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, combined with competitive project grants from ANR, the European Commission (H2020), and French government directorates (DARES-DREES). Pricing is not applicable; all research outputs are freely disseminated. The lab has 160 members, including 70 teacher-researchers and 80 doctoral students, with governance led by Director Philippe Batifoulier and two deputy directors.

Name

Centre de recherche en économie et gestion de Paris Nord (CEPN)

Legal name

Centre d'économie de Paris Nord (CEPN)

Website

https://cepn.univ-paris13.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CEPN is a French public research laboratory (UMR CNRS 7234) conducting critical, pluralist economics and management research across four axes, serving academic communities, doctoral students, and policy makers via publications, seminars, and the HAL open archive.

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Villetaneuse

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France

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Europe

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public research funding: Funded by CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord as institutional supervisors (tutelles). Receives project funding from ANR (French National Research Agency), European H2020 program, and government contracts (DARES-DREES).

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Core offering

CEPN is a French university research laboratory (UMR CNRS 7234) that conducts fundamental and applied academic research in economics and management. Its work is organized around four research axes (FEMEC, SANSOMI, DyCAP, MAFIM) and produces publications, peer-reviewed journals, working papers, books, doctoral training, and academic seminars, disseminated freely through the HAL open archive and conferences.

Product overview

CEPN is a university research laboratory (UMR CNRS 7234) affiliated with Paris 13 University and CNRS. It is not a commercial product company but rather an academic research institution. CEPN's activities consist of: (1) fundamental and applied research in economics and management organized around four research axes (FEMEC, SANSOMI, DyCAP, MAFIM); (2) production and dissemination of scientific publications including a peer-reviewed journal, working papers, and books; (3) organization of academic seminars, workshops, and conferences; (4) doctoral training and scientific mediation activities.

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Products and services

• European Review of Service Economics and Management A peer-reviewed academic journal edited by CEPN researchers and published by Classiques Garnier, focusing on economic and management questions raised by the tertiarization of economic activities.
• HAL Collection du CEPN Open-access repository on the French national HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) platform that archives and disseminates CEPN's working papers, journal articles, books, and other scientific outputs.
• CEPN Seminar Series Recurring academic seminar series organized by CEPN covering political economy, doctoral research, predatory state and resistance, healthcare capitalism, and management-economics-organization topics for researchers, doctoral students, and the broader academic community.
• STREPS Webinar Series Webinar series on Sustainability, Technology, Risks, Environment and Policies launched for the 2025/2026 academic year, providing a public scientific forum on contemporary sustainability and policy challenges.
• Working Papers Series Series of academic working papers produced by CEPN researchers on topics such as environmental economics, financialization, central banking, and securities class actions, distributed through the HAL open archive.

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• INFER (International Network for Economic Research)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 December 2020INFER is an association of international researchers that encourages young researchers to present and publish their research. The CEPN's MAFIM axis organized the INFER 2020 annual conference in Paris.
• CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)coreOthersCNRS is the primary institutional supervisor (tutelle) of CEPN. CEPN is registered as UMR CNRS 7234. CNRS provides core funding and institutional support for the laboratory's research activities.
• Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Université Paris 13)coreOthersUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord is the second institutional supervisor (tutelle) of CEPN. The laboratory is hosted at the university and its researchers are affiliated with various departments including UFR SEG.
• Institut VeblenmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstitut Veblen and CEPN co-organize a cycle of seminars on European reforms. The partnership brings together researchers on topics such as European labor market reforms.
• Institut MINES-TELECOM Business SchoolmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized research seminar on corporate profits and financialization with researchers including William Lazonick and Cédric Durand.
• RUDN (Russian University of People's Friendship)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRUDN and CEPN co-organize annual conferences on the future of France and Russia in the contemporary world, covering topics in higher education, science, economics, and territorial development.
• UNSAM (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCIN-USPC joint research project comparing financialization modes of firms in developed and developing countries. Collaboration involves researchers Martín Schorr and Andrés Wainer from UNSAM.

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Direct peers

• IDHE.S – Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie: CNRS UMR focused on the historical and political economy of capitalism; directly comparable for critical, history-friendly approaches to economics and management that overlap with CEPN's FEMEC and DyCAP axes.
• CEPREMAP: Publicly funded applied economics research centre in France; comparable as a mid-sized French research unit producing working papers, policy briefs, and public-facing economic analysis.
• EconomiX: UMR CNRS economics research unit at Université Paris Nanterre; another French CNRS economics UMR of comparable scale and structure, making it a directly comparable academic research peer.
• OFCE – Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques: French applied economics and forecasting research centre linked to Sciences Po; comparable in producing heterodox-leaning macroeconomic analysis and policy-oriented outputs that compete for similar French and European research funding.
• CLERSÉ – Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques: CNRS UMR at Université de Lille spanning sociology and economics; comparable as a French CNRS mixed research unit working on capitalism, labour, and political economy themes with similar pluralist positioning.
• Levy Economics Institute of Bard College: US-based heterodox economics research institute producing working papers, policy notes, and public engagement; comparable for its critical/heterodox orientation, pluralist methods, and policy-facing economic research outputs.
• Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (CES): UMR CNRS economics research laboratory at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; shares the same CNRS UMR operating model and is structurally the closest peer in terms of scope, public funding mix, and doctoral training mission.

Others

• INFER – International Network for Economic Research: Pan-European research association that promotes young researchers in economics and with which CEPN co-organised the INFER 2020 annual conference; acts as an enabling network partner that overlaps with CEPN's MAFIM activities.

Emerging players

• Centre Émile Bernheim (ULB): Inter-university research centre in management and economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles; comparable as a smaller French-language research unit working on management, finance, and heterodox economic questions.

Regional players

• SOAS Department of Economics: UK-based heterodox economics department with a strong pluralist research tradition; comparable for post-Keynesian and critical political economy research outputs but operating in a different national funding system.

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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Profiles11 records

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