Abhijit Banerjee and Jean Tirole

From the 67th International Congress of the French Economic Association, lectures by Jean Tirole and Abhijit Banerjee.

Inaugural Lecture : Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics, Nobel Prize 2014)

Jean Tirole is chairman of the Jean-Jacques Laffont — Toulouse School of Economics Foundation and scientific director of the Institute for Industrial Economics. He is laureate of numerous international distinctions, including the 2007 CNRS gold medal and the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. Professor Tirole’s research covers industrial organization, regulation, finance, macroeconomics and banking, and psychology-based economics.

Topic: “New threats on financial stability and the future of financial regulation”

Jean-Jacques Laffont Lecture : Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Abhijit Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Invited Professor at the Paris School of Economics. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan and remains one of the directors of the lab.

Topic: “Humanizing network economics”

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