Current position
| Professor of Economics, University Toulouse I |
Former positions
| 2001 | Professor of Economics, University of Southern California |
| 1998 | President of the European Economic Association |
| 1997 | Fellow of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique of the Prime Minister |
| 1992 | President of the Econometric Society |
| 1990 | Director of the Institut D'Economie Industrielle |
| 1988 | Taussig Research Professor, Harvard University |
| 1987 - 1988 | Sherman Fairschild Fellow, California Institute of Technology |
| 1979 | Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse I |
| 1978 | Fellow of the Econometric Society |
Education
| 1975 | Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University |
| 1972 | Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics |
| 1970 | Statistician Economist, ENSAE |
Grants and awards
| 2002 | Officier de la Légion d'Honneur |
| 2001 | Honorary Professorship - Renmin University of China |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate, University of Liège |
| 2000 | Foreign Honorary Member of the Argentinian Economic Association |
| 1998 | Honorary Doctorate, University of Lausanne |
| 1997 | Prize of Utility Research Center, University of Florida |
| 1996 | Prize of the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse |
| 1996 | Rossi Prize of the Institute of France |
| 1993 | Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1993 | Yrjö-Jahnsson Prize of the European Economic Association |
| 1993 | Prize of the Best Economist, Nouvel Économiste weekly paper |
| 1991 | Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur |
| 1991 | UAP Scientific Prize |
| 1991 | Honorary Member of the American Economic Association |
| 1991 | Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France |
| 1990 | Silver Medal of the CNRS |