Most professors in the Department of Economics are affiliated with one or several research units:
- Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les enjeux économiques des changements démographiques
- Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les répercussions régionales de la mondialisation
- Groupe de recherche en capital humain
- Inter-university Center on Risk, Employment and Economic Policy (CIRPÉE)
- Inter-university Research Center on the Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO)
- Inter-university Research Center in Quantitative Economics (CIREQ)
- Center on Innovation, Performance and Social Welfare in the Knowledge Economy (CIBLES)
- Research Chair Guy-Bernier
- Institute for Environmental Sciences