In 2006 Amir and Knauff  ranked the ECARES Doctoral School among the best of continental Europe. Its outstanding quality has been confirmed in 2010 by a new ranking conducted by RePEc.  It measures the research performance of young economists who graduated less than ten years and five years ago worldwide. Two of our graduates, Domenico Giannone and Luca Sala, are among the top 70 of young researchers worldwide who graduated less than 10 years ago (36^rd and 63^rd respectively). Among those graduating less than 5 years ago, our graduate Marta Banbura ranks 24^th. Congratulations to these excellent performances.