Biography:Roger Guesnerie
Roger Guesnerie | |
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| Born | 17 February 1943 Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert, Mayenne, France |
| Died | 4 January 2026 (aged 82) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Institution | Collège de France École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris School of Economics |
| Field | Economic theory Macroeconomics Public economics |
| School or tradition | Mathematical economics |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique École nationale des ponts et chaussées |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Jacques Laffont |
| Doctoral students | Thomas Piketty |
| Awards | President, Econometric Society (1996) President, French Association of Economic Sciences (2002–2003) President, European Economic Association (1994) Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences CNRS Silver Medal Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Roger Guesnerie (17 February 1943 – 4 January 2026) was a French academic and economist. He was last the Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France, Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and the chairman of the board of directors of the Paris School of Economics.
Life and career
Guesnerie was born in Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert on 17 February 1943.[1][2] He studied at École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Toulouse in 1982. He taught at the London School of Economics, the École Polytechnique, and at Harvard University.[3] Guesnerie published widely in economics, including in public economics, in the theory of incentives and economic mechanisms, and in the theory of general economic equilibrium.
Guesnerie died in Paris on 4 January 2026, at the age of 82.[4][1]
Honors and responsibilities
Guesnerie was elected as president of several scholarly societies, notably the French Association of Economic Sciences (2002–2003), the Econometric Society (1996), and the European Economic Association (1994). Guesnerie was elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and as a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as co-editor of Econometrica (1984–1989) and as foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies. In France, Guesnerie's research has been recognized with the CNRS Silver Medal; he was appointed a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2005 and knight of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1987.
Publications
Books
- Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens, 2008, The Design of Climate Policy, MIT Press.[5]
- "Assessing Rational Expectations 2: Eductive stability in economics", MIT Press, 2005, 453p.[6]
- "Assessing Rational Expectations: Sunspot multiplicity and economic fluctuations", MIT Press, 2001, 319 p.ISBN 978-0-262-26279-8
- "A contribution to the pure theory of taxation", Cambridge University Press, 1995, 301 pages[7]
Papers
- Guesnerie, Roger; Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1984). "Effective policy tools and quantity controls". Econometrica 52 (1): 59–86. doi:10.2307/1911461. http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/couv_orange/co8014.pdf.
- Guesnerie, Roger in production. Cornet, Bernard; Tulkens, Henry. eds. Contributions to Operations Research and Economics: The twentieth anniversary of CORE (Papers from the symposium held in Louvain-la-Neuve, January 1987). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 99–143. ISBN 978-0-262-03149-3.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bourguignon, François (12 January 2026). "Roger Guesnerie, grande figure de la théorie économique, est mort" (in French). Le Monde. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/01/12/roger-guesnerie-grande-figure-de-la-theorie-economique-est-mort_6661490_3382.html.
- ↑ Linnemer, Laurent (2019). "Roger Guesnerie: An Hors Catégorie Career". Annals of Economics and Statistics (fr) (135): 1–55. doi:10.15609/annaeconstat2009.135.0001. ISSN 2115-4430. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.135.0001.
- ↑ "Roger Guesnerie: (English) Curriculum Vitae". Paris School of Economics. https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/guesnerie-roger/english-curriculum-vitae.
- ↑ Hommage à Roger Guesnerie Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
- ↑ R. Guesnerie; Henry Tulkens (2008). The Design of Climate Policy. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-07302-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=OowgAQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Roger Guesnerie (2005). Assessing Rational Expectations 2: "eductive" Stability in Economics. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-26290-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=g46ijfOGsG0C.
- ↑ Roger Guesnerie (12 November 1998). A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-62956-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=1A8TH-4ye_IC.
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