Most professors in the Department of Economics are affiliated with one or several research units:
- Center on Innovation, Performance and Social Welfare in the Knowledge Economy (CIBLES)
- Chaire de recherche sur les enjeux économiques intergénérationnels (CREEi)
- Chaire en macroéconomie et prévisions
- Economic Development and Inequality of Regions (DEIT)
- Groupe de recherche en capital humain
- Inter-university Research Center on the Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO)
- Inter-university Research Center in Quantitative Economics (CIREQ)
- Institute for Environmental Sciences
- Research Chair in Itergenerational Economics (CREEI)