[url=]Research Interests[/url]Public Economics
Information Economics
Regulation
Economics of Development

[url=]Professional experiences[/url]Former positions

			Professor of Economics, University Toulouse I
1978			Fellow of the Econometric Society
1979			Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse I
1987	-	1988	Sherman Fairschild Fellow, California Institute of Technology
1988			Taussig Research Professor, Harvard University
1990			Director of the Institut D'Economie Industrielle
1992			President of the Econometric Society
1997			Fellow of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique of the Prime Minister
1998			President of the European Economic Association
2001			Professor of Economics, University of Southern California

Education

1970			Statistician Economist, ENSAE
1972			Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics
1975			Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University

Grants and awards

1990			Silver Medal of the CNRS
1991			Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
1991			UAP Scientific Prize
1991			Honorary Member of the American Economic Association
1991			Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France
1993			Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993			Yrjö-Jahnsson Prize of the European Economic Association
1993			Prize of the Best Economist, Nouvel Économiste weekly paper
1996			Prize of the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse
1996			Rossi Prize of the Institute of France
1997			Prize of Utility Research Center, University of Florida
1998			Honorary Doctorate, University of Lausanne
2000			Honorary Doctorate, University of Liège
2000			Foreign Honorary Member of the Argentinian Economic Association
2001			Honorary Professorship - Renmin University of China
2002			Officier de la Légion d'Honneur

[url=]Books[/url]

• Regulation and Development, series Frederico Caffe Lectures, Cambridge University Press, March 2005.
  

• Cost Proxy Models and Telecommunications Policy: A New Empirical Approach to Regulation, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002. (with Farid Gasmi, Mark D. Kennet and William W. Sharkey)
  
  

• Applied Incentive Theory, Advanced Studies in Economics and Finance, Peking University Press, 2001.
• The Theory of Incentives: The Principal-Agent Model, Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN:978-0-691-09184-6. (with David Martimort)
  
• Theoretical Incentive Theory, Advanced Studies in Economics and Finance, Peking University Press, 2001.
  

• Incentives and Political Economy, series Clarendon Lectures in Economics, Oxford University Press, 2000. [ ScienceDirect© ]
  
  

• Competition in Telecommunications, series Munich Lectures in Economics, MIT Press, 1999. (with Jean Tirole)
  
  

• Price Controls and the Economics of Institutions in China, OECD Publishing, Development Centre Studies, 1997. (with Claudia Senik)
  
  

• A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation, MIT Press, 1993. (with Jean Tirole)
  
  

• Microeconometrics: Surveys and Applications, J.P. Florens, M. Ivaldi, F. Laisney & J.J. Laffont (eds.), Basil Blackwell, 1990. (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Marc Ivaldi)
  
  

• Économie de l'Incertain et de l'Information - Vol.2, du Cours de théorie microéconomique, series Economie et Statistiques Avancées, Economica, 1985. [ ScienceDirect© ]
  
  

• Fondements de l'Économie Publique - Vol.1, du Cours de théorie microéconomique, series Economie et Statistiques Avancées, Economica, 1982.
  

• Essays in Economics of Uncertainty, series Harvard Economic Studies, Harvard University Press, 1980.
  

• Incentives in Public Decision-Making, North-Holland, 1979. (with Jerry Green)
  
  

• Effets Externes et Théorie Économique, series Monographies du Séminaire d'Économétrie, Éditions du CNRS, 1977