Jean Tirole
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Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a notable contemporary french economist, author of many works in economics, scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute in Toulouse.
His interests include industrial organization, theory of games, organization theory, etc. Tirole is an author of 6 books, one of them, The Theory of Industrial Organization[1] is a "standard" graduate book in the field.
In his research work Tirole wrote more than 100 articles and working papers. One of them, A Theory of Collective Reputations... [2] is a work in markets of asymmetric information, another view on the problem analogue to Akerlof's model. It formalises and describes in terms of theory of games in a single model such social phoenomena as reputation, honesty, quality and corruption. It gave an impulse to further researches and applications of these models, for example, to bribery in interaction between entrepreneurs and officials.
[edit] Biography
Tirole graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1976, in 1981 defended Ph.D. work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1981-1984 he worked as a researcher at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, then in 1984-1991 as a Professor of Economics at MIT (later as a Visiting Professor). He was a president of the Econometric Society in 1998 and of the European Economic Association in 2001.
Was given various awards for his achievements in economics, is a Foreign Honorary Member at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association.
[edit] References
- ^ Tirole, Jean The Theory of Industrial Organization, (The MIT Press, 1988).
- ^ Tirole, Jean A Theory of Collective Reputations (with applications to the persistence of corruption and to firm quality. (Review of Economic Studies, 1996, #1)
