Annick Laruelle is a Belgian economist who works as a professor in the faculty of economics and business at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Her research involves social choice,

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, and

voting system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections ma ...

s. Beyond her main research efforts in economics and social science, she has also applied game theory to model the competition between cells in

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Education and career

Laruelle earned a civil engineering degree in applied mathematics from the

Université catholique de Louvain The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...

in 1991. She continued at the same university for a Ph.D. in economics, completed in 1998. After postdoctoral research at the University of Alicante from 1998 to 2000, and at the University of the Basque Country from 2000 to 2001, she worked as a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at the University of Alicante from 2001 to 2005, and as a professor of economics at the University of Caen Normandy in France from 2005 to 2008. Since 2008 she has been IKERBASQUE research professor of economic analysis at the University of the Basque Country.

Book

Laruelle is the coauthor, with Federico Valenciano, of the

monograph A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. In library cataloging, ''monograph ...

''Voting and Collective Decision-Making: Bargaining and Power'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laruelle, Annick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Belgian economists Belgian women economists Université catholique de Louvain alumni Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country