Biography:Roger Guesnerie

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Roger Guesnerie
Born
France
NationalityFrench
InstitutionCollège de France
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Paris School of Economics
FieldEconomic theory
Macroeconomics
Public economics
School or
tradition
Mathematical economics
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Doctoral
advisor
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Doctoral
students
Thomas Piketty
AwardsPresident, 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 is an economist born in France in 1943. He is currently 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.

Career

Guesnerie 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 has taught at the London School of Economics, the École Polytechnique, and at Harvard University.[1] Guesnerie has published widely in economics, including in public economics, in the theory of incentives and economic mechanisms, and in the theory of general economic equilibrium.

Honors and responsibilities

Guesnerie has been elected 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 has been 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 has 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 has been declared to be a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

Publications

Books

  • Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens, 2008, The Design of Climate Policy, MIT Press.[2]
  • "Assessing Rational Expectations 2: Eductive stability in economics", MIT Press, 2005, 453p.[3]
  • "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[4]

Papers

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