Since 2005, Toulouse School of Economics organises the annual Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize which is awarded to a renowned international economist whose research, in the spirit of the work undertaken by Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and the empirical. The prize winner presents his or her work at a public lecture, in partnership with the city hall "Mairie de Toulouse".
2023 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize
This year, the Prize will be awarded to Pierre-André CHIAPPORI from Columbia University.
More information coming soon.
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Year |
Laureate |
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Nobel prize |
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2022 |
Collège de France |
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2021 |
Princetown University |
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2020 |
Stanford University |
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2019 |
Chicago University |
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2018 |
MIT |
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2017 |
Harvard University |
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2016 |
Standford University |
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2015 |
Harvard University |
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2014 |
Columbia University |
2001 |
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2013 |
Harvard University |
2007 |
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2012 |
MIT |
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2010 |
Standford University |
2020 |
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2009 |
University of Chicago |
2007 |
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2008 |
University College London (UCL) |
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2007 |
MIT |
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2006 |
University of California, Berkeley |
2000 |
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2005 |
MIT |
2010 |
The prize winners present their work at a public event wich is largely attended by business leaders, decisions makers, economists, TSE students and researches.
| Year | Laureate | Lectures | University | Nobel prize |
| 2022 | Philippe AGHION | Rethink Capitalism : the power of creative destruction | Collège de France | |
| 2021 | Roland BENABOU | Beliefs and Misbeliefs: The Economics of Wishful Thinking | Princeton University | |
| 2020 | Matthew O. JACKSON | The Dynamics of Social Networks and some of their Economic Consequences | Stanford University | |
| 2019 | Marianne BERTRAND | Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century | University of Chicago Booth School of Business | |
| 2018 | Daron ACEMOGLU | A narrow path to freedom: what weight for the state in the face of civil society? | MIT Economics | |
| 2017 | Ariel PAKES | Price and productivity: from company's choices to market results. | Harvard University | |
| 2016 | Susan ATHEY | The Internet and the News Industry | Standford Business School of Graduate | |
| 2015 | Elhanan HELPMAN | Globalization and inequalities | Harvard University | |
| 2014 | Joseph. E. Stiglitz | Creating the knowledge society: a new approach to growth, development and social progress | Columbia University - Columbia Business School | 2001 |
| 2013 | Eric MASKIN | Topic in Elections and Mechanism Design. | Harvard University | 2007 |
| 2012 | Robert M. TOWNSEND | Financial Design and Economic Development | MIT Economics | |
| 2010 | Robert B. WILSON | Stringent Criteria for Rational Strategic Behavior. | Standford Business School of Graduate | 2020 |
| 2009 | Roger MYERSON | State-Building, Leadership, and Local Democracy. | University of Chicago | 2007 |
| 2008 | Richard BLUNDELL | Designing a Tax System for the 21st Century: The Role of Theory and Evidence. | University College London | |
| 2007 | Stephen ROSS | The Cost of Social Security. | University of Connecticut | |
| 2006 | Daniel McFADDEN | How Consumers Respond to Incentives. | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| 2005 | Peter A. DIAMOND | Pensions for an Aging Population. | MIT Economics | 2010 |
Before Professor Laffont's passing, the Institute organized each year a distinguished lecture honoring an internationally recognized economist.
| 2004 | James HECKMAN | The Technology of Human Skill Formation and its Implications for Public Policy. | University of Chicago | 2000 |
| 2003 | Olivier Jean BLANCHARD | Peut-on éliminer le chômage en Europe? | MIT | |
| 2002 | Tony ATKINSON | La distribution des revenus dans les pays de l'OCDE au XXème siècle. | Oxford University | |
| 2001 | Dale JORGENSON | Information Technology and Economic Growth. | Harvard University | |
| 2000 | James MIRRLESS | What Taxes Should There Be? | Cambridge University | 1996 |
| 1999 | William NORDHAUS | Global Public Goods and the Problem of Global Warming. | Yale University | 2018 |
| 1997 | Hayne LELAND | Produits dérivés et gestion du risque dans les grandes entreprises américaines. | Haas School of Business (Univ. California Berkeley) | |
| 1996 | Paul SAMUELSON | American and European Economic Divergences at Centuries End. | MIT | 1970 |
| 1995 | Kenneth ARROW | Discounting Climate Change : Planning for an Uncertain Future. | Stanford University | 1972 |
| 1994 | Jacques DREZE | L'emploi en Europe. | University of Liège | |
| 1993 | Robert SOLOW | La Nouvelle Politique Economique américaine. | MIT | 1987 |