BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Keynes lecture: "\;Morality and the Market"\; - Jean Tirol e (Nobel Laureate\,Toulouse School of Economics) DTSTART:20180301T170000Z DTEND:20180301T183000Z UID:TALK96460@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Cambridge-INET Institute\, Faculty of Economics DESCRIPTION:Jean Tirole is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Toulo use School of Economics\, a Member of the French Council of Economic Analy sis of the Prime Minister\, a Member of the French Academy of Moral and Po litical Sciences\, a Member of the French Strategic Research Council\, and the Scientific Director of the Institute for Industrial Economics. He is also affiliated with MIT\, where he holds a visiting position\, and he is the Chairman of the Executive Committee for Institute for Advanced Study i n Toulouse\, which he co-founded in 2011.\n\nJean Tirole has published ove r two hundred articles in international reviews\, as well as twelve scient ific books. His latest book entitled Economics for the Common Good\, is ac cessible to a wide audience and is under translation into a number of lang uages. He is a laureate of numerous international distinctions\, including the 2007 CNRS gold medal\, the 2014 Nemmers prize in economics and the 20 14 Sveriges Riksbank prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Tirole received the Yrjo Jahnsson prize of European Economic Association in 1993\, the Levi-Strauss prize in 2010 and the Ross prize in 2013.\n\nPr ofessor Tirole’s research covers industrial organization\, regulation\, corporate finance\, financial markets and intermediation\, organizational economics\, macroeconomics and banking\, and psychology-based economics. H is contributions provide a splendid example of how economic theory can be of great practical significance. Tirole has developed deep analytical resu lts on the essential nature of imperfect competition and contracting under asymmetric information\; and he has distilled these theoretical results i nto a unified framework for teaching\, policy advice and continued researc h. LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR