1. Jean Tirole was born on 9 August 1953 and is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University.
15 Facts About Jean Tirole
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Jean Tirole focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology.
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Jean Tirole received engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1976, and from the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees in 1978.
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Jean Tirole was appointed a member of the elite Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests, later completing graduate studies at Universite Paris Dauphine; he received a DEA degree in 1976, and a Doctorat de troisieme cycle in decision mathematics in 1978.
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Jean Tirole is Engineer General of the Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests, Chair of the Board of the Toulouse School of Economics, and a visiting professor at MIT, and has been a professor "cumulant" at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales since 1995.
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Jean Tirole was president of the Econometric Society in 1998 and of the European Economic Association in 2001.
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Jean Tirole has been a member of the Academie des Sciences morales et politiques since 2011, the Conseil d'Analyse Economique since 2008 and the Conseil strategique de la recherche since 2013.
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Rochet and Jean Tirole analysed the implications of 2-sided markets for competition policy.
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Fudenberg and Jean Tirole created a taxonomy of strategic effects in oligopolistic competition models.
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Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014 for his analysis of market power and the regulation of natural monopolies.
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Jean Tirole has been a Sloan Research Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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Jean Tirole was a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1986.
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Jean Tirole is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Economic Association, and an Economic Theory Fellow since 2011.
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In 2013 Jean Tirole was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Jean Tirole's research covers industrial organization, regulation, game theory, public economics, banking and finance, psychology and economics, international finance and macroeconomics.