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Jean Tirole
Economist

Jean Tirole

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Analysing market power and the regulation of large firms.

Market power · Industrial organisation

Born
9 August 1953
Birthplace
Troyes

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Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole is a French economist whose theoretical work examines competition, incentives and economic regulation.

Early life

Education

Trained in engineering in France before completing an economics doctorate at MIT in 1981.

Career

  1. 1984–1991

    MIT

    Taught economics.

  2. Toulouse

    Institution building

    Helped develop the Toulouse School of Economics with Jean-Jacques Laffont.

  3. 2014

    Economics prize

    Received the Nobel memorial prize.

Selected work

Market power

Studied how regulation should account for different industries and firms’ information.

Industrial organisation

Published work synthesising game-theoretic approaches to markets.

Beyond work

Professional service

Presided over the Econometric Society and European Economic Association.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.