Jean Tirole
| Jean Tirole | |
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Tirole in 2007
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| Born |
9 August 1953 Troyes, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Institution |
Toulouse 1 University Capitole Toulouse School of Economics Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales |
| Field | |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paris Dauphine University École nationale des ponts et chaussées École Polytechnique |
| Doctoral advisor |
Eric Maskin |
| Awards |
John von Neumann Award (1998) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2008) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2014) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French professor of economics. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of market power and regulation.
Tirole received engineering degrees from the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1976, and from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées in 1978. He graduated as a member of the elite Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests. Tirole pursued graduate studies at the Paris Dauphine University and was awarded a DEA degree in 1976 and a Doctorat de troisième cycle in decision mathematics in 1978. In 1981, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his thesis titled Essays in economic theory, under the supervision of Eric Maskin.
Tirole is chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute (IDEI) at Toulouse 1 University Capitole. After receiving his doctorate from MIT in 1981, he worked as a researcher at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées until 1984. From 1984–1991, he worked as Professor of Economics at MIT. His work by 1988 helped to define modern industrial organization theory by organising and synthesising the main results of the game-theory revolution vis-à-vis understanding of non-competitive markets.
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