Le Magnifique Jean-Jacques Laffont (13 April 1947 - 1 May 2004)

Laurent Linnemer

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, issue 143, 1-69

Abstract: This profile of Jean-Jacques Laffont is based on several interviews with Colette Laffont, his wife, as well as with former colleagues and coauthors. The interviews took place between September 2019 and June 2020. The objective is twofold. First, to trace the career of a highly influential economist who made seminal contributions to the fields of mechanism design, public economics, regulation, econometrics, and development economics. Second, to show how Laffont and his colleagues contributed to changing the French landscape of economic research notably through the establishment of the Toulouse School of Economics.

Keywords: Second-Best; Contract Theory; Regulation; Econometrics; Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 C5 D6 D8 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.143.0001

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