Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics

Presents

2012
Tjalling C. Koopmans
Memorial Lectures

December 4 – 5

Tuesday, December 4

"Information, Tranching and Liquidity"
(with Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard)
Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue
4:00 – 5:30 pm

    Reception immediately following

Wednesday, December 5

"Bonus Culture"
(with Roland Bénabou, Princeton)
Cowles Luncheon
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00 – 1:15 pm

JEAN TIROLE
Toulouse School of Economics

Jean Tirole is chairman of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and scientific director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI), University of Toulouse. He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, and with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), which he helped found in 2011; he has been a member of the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques since 2011. Before moving to Toulouse in 1991, he was professor of economics at MIT. He was president of the Econometric Society in 1998 and of the European Economic Association in 2001.

He holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from the Free University in Brussels (1989), the London Business School (2007), HEC Montreal (2007), the University of Mannheim (2011), Athens University of Economics and Business (2012) and the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2012). Among other prizes and honors, he received the Yrjö Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association in 1993, the gold medal of the CNRS in 2007, and was the inaugural winner of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in economics, finance and management in 2008. In 2010 he received the CME-MSRI award and the Levi-Strauss prize. A former Sloan Fellow (1985) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1988), he is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and of the American Economic Association (1993).

Jean Tirole has given over seventy distinguished lectures and published about two hundred articles in economics and finance, as well as 10 books. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1981, engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1976) and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1978) and a "Doctorat de 3ème cycle" in decision mathematics from the University Paris IX (1978).