This thesis provides a template for Ph.D. students from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University. If you are interested in this template, it means that the end of your Ph.D. journey approaches. First of all, congratulations! This is the home straight! Do not hesitate to contribute to this template. This is a public good. People have spent time on that public good so that you can save some of yours, thus, please help the next AMSE generations by reporting bugs and/or by suggesting changes that you think would be useful to others.

The general structure of the thesis template is organized as follows.

The structure of the thesis is called from the these.tex file. Dependencies are contained in the tex folder which is organized as follows.

A chapter is called from the these.tex file. The structure of the chapter lies in the corresponding tex folder (e.g. chap1.tex), whereas the content of the chapter is contained in the corresponding folder (e.g. chap1). The structure of this latter folder is as follows.

The figure and table environments are in the text.

There are several recommended steps to move from your working papers to this thesis structure. This list is non-exhaustive. To add packages, insert your changes at the end of the amse_these.cls file.

• Add your numéro national de thèse (NNT) and numéro local (NL). Those can be found on https://depot-theses.univ-amu.fr/.
• Change the date of your thesis defense.
• Change the name (one Fabien Petit is enough, trust me) and the title.
• Check laboratories and research partners, check also the logos at the bottom. You can add logos into the logo folder. Adjust the minipage size if necessary.
• Double-check the institutions of your jury members.

• Change the names and the date.
• Sign it.

• You know what to do, you're a big grown Ph.D. student.

• Insert ALL your references (from all chapters) into this bib file.
• Remove abstract, doi, url, isbn, eprint, and related fields for all references.
• Check duplicates.

• Normal citation: use \citet command
• Without parentheses citation: use \citealt command
• Pro tip: use CTRL+F to replace your \cite{ with \citet{. Do not forget the {! (CTRL+F is Cmd+F for muggles)

• This is where the fun begins!
• I would suggest you deal with one chapter at a time. Comment the \inputcommand of chapters you're not working on when compiling, this should reduce the compilation time.
• In the tex/chapX.tex file, change the abstract, keywords, and JEL codes. Within the refsection environment, define the structure of your chapter. If you don't like working with chapters for your sections (i.e. you're a shambolic Ph.D. student), you can insert your whole paper in this file.
• You may have used the same labels in different chapters (e.g. \label{eq:utility}), thus, you want to avoid multiple references.
• For labels, replace \label{ with \label{chap1-, \ref{ with \ref{chap1-, and \eqref{ with \eqref{chap1-.
• Check the \input location of your tables and figures. You may want to use the same trick for input, i.e. replace \input{ with \input{chap1/.

This template was copied and improved from github.com/SCD-Aix-Marseille-Universite/latexamu to fit AMSE students' needs. I thank Julieta Peveri and Rosnel Sesssinou for their advice while writing this template. I am grateful to Sarah Vincent for updating this template.