Roger Guesnerie is an economist born in France in 1943. He is currently the Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the ''
Collège de France
The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment (''grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris ne ...
'', Director of Studies at the
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
, and the chairman of the board of directors of the
Paris School of Economics
The Paris School of Economics (PSE; French: ''École d'économie de Paris'') is a French research institute in the field of economics. It offers MPhil, MSc, and PhD level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, in ...
.
Career
Guesnerie studied at
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
and the
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
, and received his doctorate in economics from the
University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the Frenc ...
in 1982. He has taught at the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
, the École Polytechnique, and at
Harvard University
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. Guesnerie has published widely in economics, including in
public economics
Public economics ''(or economics of the public sector)'' is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve ...
, in the theory of incentives and economic mechanisms, and in the theory of general economic equilibrium.
Honors and responsibilities
Guesnerie has been elected president of several scholarly societies, notably the French Association of Economic Sciences (2002–2003), the
Econometric Society
The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...
(1996), and the
European Economic Association
The European Economic Association (EEA) is a professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna and its first president was Jacques Drèze. The current pres ...
(1994). Guesnerie has been elected as a foreign honorary member of the
American Economic Association
The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members.
History and Constitution
The AEA was esta ...
and as a foreign member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. He has served as co-editor of ''
Econometrica
''Econometrica'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles in many areas of economics, especially econometrics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Econometric Society. The current editor-in-chief is Gui ...
'' (1984–1989) and as foreign editor of the ''
Review of Economic Studies
''The Review of Economic Studies'' (also known as ''REStud'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics. It was established in 1933 by a group of economists based in Britain and the United States. The original editorial team ...
''. In France, Guesnerie's research has been recognized with the
CNRS Silver Medal
The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherch ...
; he has been declared to be a ''Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite'' and ''Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur''.
Publications
Books
* Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens, 2008, ''The Design of Climate Policy'', MIT Press.
* "Assessing Rational Expectations 2: Eductive stability in economics", MIT Press, 2005, 453p.
* "Assessing Rational Expectations: Sunspot multiplicity and economic fluctuations", MIT Press, 2001, 319 p.
* "A contribution to the pure theory of taxation", Cambridge University Press, 1995, 301 pages
Papers
*
* with
: Donald J. Brown credited Guesnerie's "seminal" paper with the "major methodological innovation in the general equilibrium analysis of firms with pricing rules", "the introduction of the methods of nonsmooth analysis, as a
ynthesisof global analysis (differential topology) and
fconvex analysis." This paper introduced cone of interior displacements of Dubovickii and Miljutin into economics.
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* "General equilibrium when Some firms follow special pricing rules", (with Egbert Dierker and W. Neuefeind), ''Econometrica'', 53, 6, 1985
:This paper stimulated a subfield of economics, devoted to pricing rules, as discussed by
Jacques Drèze
Jacques H. Drèze (5 August 1929 – 25 September 2022) was a Belgian economist noted for his contributions to economic theory, econometrics, and economic policy as well as for his leadership in the economist, economics profession. Drèze was ...
:
"Starting with a paper in ''Econometrica'' by Dierker, Guesnerie and Neuefeind (1985), a theory of general equilibrium has developed for economies with non-convex production sets, where firms follow well-defined pricing rules. In particular, existence theorems of increasing generality cover (to some extent, because of various differences in assumptions) the case of Ramsey-Boiteux pricing. Those interested primarily in applications might express skepticism, perhaps even horrified skepticism, upon realizing that 90 pages of a serious economics journal—a 1988 issue of ''The Journal of Mathematical Economics''—were devoted to existence proofs of equilibrium in non-convex economies, under alternative formulations of the assumption that entails bounded losses at normalized prices. Still, I think that economic research must cover the whole spectrum from concrete applications to that level of abstraction."
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References
External links
Homepage of Roger Guesnerie (Paris School of Economics)
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French civil engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
Corps des ponts
Presidents of the Econometric Society
Collège de France faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
General equilibrium theorists
Mathematical economists
Public economists
Microeconomists
Macroeconomists
Econometricians
Fellows of the Econometric Society
21st-century French economists
20th-century French economists
1943 births
Living people