Jean Tirole Honorary Chairman, TSE & IAST • Visiting Professor, MIT • 2014 Nobel laureate, economics • Twitter #jeantirole @TSEinfo Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France 1 relation

Jean Tirole is honorary chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and scientific director of TSE-Partnership. He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Institut de France.

Jean Tirole Honorary Chairman, TSE & IAST • Visiting Professor, MIT • 2014 Nobel laureate, economics • Twitter #jeantirole @TSEinfo Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France 1 relation The book opens with background information for the reader who is unfamiliar with current issues in the telecommunications industry. En compagnie de chroniqueurs, Anne Sophie Lapix donne la parole à ses invités pour décrypter et analyser l'actualité. Jean-Jacques LAFFONT & Jean TIROLE, 1990. Jean Tirole: 5 things to know about the Nobel Prize winner’s work His work on regulating oligopolies is becoming increasingly important amid growth companies Share on Twitter (opens new window) Jean Tirole, (born August 9, 1953, Troyes, France), French economist who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics in recognition of his innovative contributions to the study of monopolistic industries, or industries that consist of only a few powerful firms. Jean Tirole was born in Troyes in France. Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy, and the economics of incentives.

The colloquium honoured Executive Board member Benoît Cœuré’s legacy by reflecting on how bond markets and new challenges such as technological innovation and … Jean Tirole delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2014 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. Jean-Jacques Laffont & Jean Tirole, 1988. Based on their pathbreaking work in the application of principal-agent theory to questions of regulation, Laffont and Tirole develop a synthetic approach, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on the regulation of natural monopolies such as military contractors, utility companies, and transportation authorities. The Prudential Regulation of Banks applies modern economic theory to prudential regulation of financial intermediaries. Jean Tirole: 5 things to know about the Nobel Prize winner’s work His work on regulating oligopolies is becoming increasingly important amid growth companies Share on Twitter (opens new window) After having studied engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, he turned his interests to economics and mathematics. The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level.

Jean Tirole – the French economist who has used game theory in an attempt to find ways to control the dominance of major companies – has won the Nobel prize for economics. Share on Twitter (opens new window) ... Jean Tirole Add to myFT.

The latest Tweets from Jean Tirole (@JeanTirole_): "#Anonymous Palo Alto" Although … Jean Tirole, the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is Scientific Director of IDEI (Institut d'Economie Industrielle), Chairman of the Board of TSE (Toulouse School of Economics), and Annual Visiting Professor of Economics at MIT.