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. August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French (help· info), in local Toulouse accent (help· info)) (Occitan...

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. Industrial organization is the field of economics that studies the behavior of firms, the structure of markets and of their interactions. ... Organizational Studies (also known as Organizational Behavior) is a distinct field of academic study which takes as its subject organizations, examining them using the methods of economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and psychology. ...

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. George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Bribery is a crime defined by Blacks Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions as an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty. ... It has been suggested that Entrepreneurial mindset be merged into this article or section. ... An official (from the Latin Officialis, person – or object – related to an officium, see that article) is, in the primary sense, someone who holds an office (i. ...

Biography

Tirole graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1976, in 1981 defended Ph.D. work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For other Écoles Polytechniques, see École Polytechnique de Montréal and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...

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. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) (National school of Bridges and Roads), often referred to as les Ponts, is one of the French Grandes Écoles of engineering. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... The Econometric Society The Econometric Society, an International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation with Statistics and Mathematics was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

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. The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The American Economic Association, or AEA, is the oldest and most important professional organization in the field of economics. ...

References

1. ↑ Tirole, Jean The Theory of Industrial Organization, (The MIT Press, 1988).
2. ↑ Tirole, Jean A Theory of Collective Reputations (with applications to the persistence of corruption and to firm quality. (Review of Economic Studies, 1996, #1)

Links

• Personal info and curriculum vitae at the IDEI website
• Biography