Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2014

Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French professor of economics. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of market power and regulation.

Awards

• 1985: Sloan Fellow
• 1986: Fellow of the Econometric Society
• 1988: Guggenheim Fellow
• 1993: Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation and the European Economic Association in 1993.
• 1993: Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1993: Foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association
• 1997: Public Utility Research Center Distinguished Service Award (University of Florida)
• 2007: Gold Medal (or médaille d'or) of the French CNRS
• 2007: Gold Medal of the city of Toulouse
• 2007: Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
• 2008: Prix du Cercle d'Oc
• 2008: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category i
• 2009: Outstanding Contributions to the Profession Award (International Association for Energy Economics)
• 2010: Chicago Mercantile Exchange – Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (CME-MSRI) prize
• 2010: Tjalling Koopmans Asset Award (Tilburg University)
• 2010: "Prix Claude Levi-Strauss".
• 2010: Officer in the Ordre national du Mérite
• 2011: Economic Theory Fellow (Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory)
• 2013: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 2014: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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Tirole is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.

Tirole received doctorates honoris causa from many Universities - the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1989, the London Business School and the University of Montreal in 2007, the University of Mannheim in 2011, the Athens University of Economics and Business and the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2012 as well as the University of Lausanne in 2013. and more .....