Mathias François Dewatripont (born 27 December 1959) is a

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economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and visiting professor at the

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(MIT). He studied economics at the ULB, and obtained a PhD at

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(

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) in 1986 (under the supervision of Eric Maskin and

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). He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy of the

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), since 2004. He is a member of European Commission President

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's ''Group of Economic Policy Analysis'', since 2005. In 2005, he was President of the European Economic Association. He is a member of the Econometric Society and Research Director at CEPR. He is one of the 22 members of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. He is member of the Académie Royale de Belgique and has been elected Foreign Honorary Member of the

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(April 2009). In 1998, he was awarded the

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on Human Sciences, and in 2003 he received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award. He was Chairman of the Oxera Economic Council. He is member of the Scientific Council of the

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, member of the Scientific Council of the

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, member of the Scientific Council of CentER (Tilburg University), and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the ULB Foundation. He is Deputy Chairman (2008–09), Chairman (2009–10) and Dean (2010–11) of the

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(SBS-EM) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He has been member of the Haut Conseil de la Science et de la Technologie, Ministère français de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, since 2009. He has been appointed Executive Director of the

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since April 2011.

Selected works

* On the Theory of Commitment, with Applications to the labor Market (Contract Theory, Labor Unions). PhD dissertation, Harvard University, United States—Massachusetts, 1986. ::Published as: * La Réglementation Prudentielle des Banques, (with J. Tirole), Payot, Lausanne, 1993. * The Prudential Regulation of Banks, (with J. Tirole, expanded English version of La Réglementation Prudentielle des Banques), MIT Press, Cambridge, 1994 (also translated in Japanese (1996), Italian (1998) and Chinese (2002)). * Contract Theory, (with P. Bolton), MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005 (also translated in Chinese (2008)). * Macroeconomic Stability and Financial Regulation: Key Issues for the G20, co-auteurs: X. Freixas & R. Portes, VoxEU & CEPR ebook, 2009 * Bailing out the Banks: Reconciling Stability and Competition: An analysis of state-supported schemes for financial institutions, co-auteurs: T. Beck, D. Coyle, X. Freixas & P. Seabright, CEPR, London, 2010. * Balancing the Banks: Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis, co-auteurs: J.-C. Rochet & J. Tirole, Princeton University Press, 2010.

External links

Mathias Dewatripont at ECARE
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dewatripont, Mathias 1959 births Living people Université libre de Bruxelles alumni Harvard University alumni 20th-century Belgian economists 21st-century Belgian economists Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences