Jean-Jacques Laffont [1947-2004]

Jean-Jacques Laffont [1947-2004]

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
  Professor of Economics, University Toulouse I

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

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