Jean-Jacques Laffont

Jean-Jacques Laffont
Born(1947-04-13)April 13, 1947
Toulouse, France
DiedMay 1, 2004(2004-05-01) (aged 57)
Colomiers, France
Academic career
FieldMicroeconomics
InstitutionUniversity of Southern California
University of Toulouse
École Polytechnique
ContributionsPublic economics
disequilibrium econometrics
Information econometrics, especially asymmetry
AwardsYrjö Jahnsson Award (1993)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont (April 13, 1947 – May 1, 2004) was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, he was awarded PhD in economics by Harvard University in 1975.

Laffont taught at the École Polytechnique (1975–1987), and was Professor of Economics at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (1980–2004) and at the University of Toulouse I (1991–2001). In 1991, he founded Toulouse's Industrial Economics Institute (Institut D'Economie Industrielle, IDEI) which has become one of the most prominent European research centres in economics. From 2001 until his death, he was the inaugural holder of the University of Southern California's John Elliott Chair in Economics. Over the course of his career, he wrote 17 books and more than 200 articles.[1] Had he lived, he might well have shared the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to his colleague and collaborator Jean Tirole.[2][3]

  1. ^ Martin, Douglas (14 May 2004). "Jean-Jacques Laffont, Economist, Dies at 57". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  2. ^ Treanor, Jill (13 October 2014). "Jean Tirole wins Nobel prize for economics 2014". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  3. ^ "It's complicated. Jean Tirole has won the Nobel prize in economics for his work on competition". The Economist. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2015.