Gérard Roland (born 1954) is a

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, and a professor of

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and

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at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He graduated from the

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in 1988. His early work was on the

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

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. After 1990, he became one of the world's most renowned and influential scholars in transition economics. He is a member o
the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC)
of

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Selected works

* "The Design of Reform Packages under Uncertainty", (with M. Dewatripont), '' American Economic Review'', 1995, vol 83, pp. 107–1223 * ''Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms''. MIT Press 2000

External links

Roland's webpage in Berkeley
1954 births Living people Belgian economists University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Université libre de Bruxelles alumni {{Belgium-economist-stub