Jean Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Jean Tirole is director of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont - Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Institut d'économie industrielle in Toulouse. After receiving his PhD from MIT in 1981, he worked as a researcher at l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées until 1984. Wikipedia
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... Economic Association. Jean Tirole received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Free University in Brussels in 1989, the Yrj Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association in... www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=80