▪️Full name: Jean Tirole (1953)
🏫Education:
Engineer (Ecole Polytechnique)
Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie; Decision Mathematics (Paris Dauphine University)
Engineer (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées)
Docteur de 3ème Cycle, Decision Mathematics (Paris Dauphine University)
Ph.D. in Economics (MIT)
▪️Position:
Honorary Chairman, Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont/Toulouse Sciences Economiques (TSE)
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995-present)
▪️Field: Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Finance, Macroeconomics, Psychology
📝Top 3 Papers:
Platform competition in two-sided markets (Journal of the European Economic Association)
Financial intermediation, loanable funds, and the real sector (The Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Formal and real authority in organizations (Journal of political economy)
🎧Podcast:
Interview with Nobel economics laureate Jean Tirole (FT News in Focus)
The common good after Covid (IFS Zooms In: The Economy)
Nobel Economist Tirole on Changing Economy For Good (Wall Street Journal)
📽Presentation:
Prof. Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize laureate, Solari Lecture 2021 (Université de Genève)
Nobel laureate Jean Tirole: The political economy of climate change (UBS Center)
Jean Tirole, “Markets and Morality” (Western University)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Roland Bénabou (Princeton University)
Parag Pathak (MIT)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2014)
Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics (2013)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2008)
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007)
Médaille d’argent, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2002)
John von Neumann Award (1998)
Center for Economic Studies Prize, Munich (1996)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993)
📚Top Books:
The Theory of Industrial Organization (MIT Press)
Game Theory (MIT Press)
A theory of incentives in procurement and regulation (MIT Press)
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