Profile Major Works Resources

Jean-Jacques Laffont, 1947-2004

Portrait of J.J. Laffont

French economist at Toulouse, leading theorist in public economics and the economics of informatoin.

 

  


top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Major Works of Jean-Jacques Laffont

  • "Une Note sur la compatibilite entre rendements croissants et concurrence parfaite", Revue d'econ politique
  • "Optimism and Experts against Adverse Selection in a Competitive Economy", 1975, JET.
  • "First Order Certainty Equivalence with Instrument-Dependent Randomness", 1975, RES
  • "On Moral Hazard in General Equilibrium Theory", with E. Helpman, 1976, JET
  • "Risk, Stochastic Preference and the Value of Information", 1976, JET
  • Effets externes et theorie economique, 1977.
  • "Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods", with J. Green, 1977, Econometrica.
  • "Taxing Price Makers", with R. Guesnerie, 1978, JET
  • "A General Equilibrium Entrepreneurial Theory of Firm Formation Based on Risk Aversion", with R. Kihlstrom, 1979, JPE
  • "A Differentiable Approach to Expected Utility Maximizing Mechanisms" with E. Maskin, 1979, in Laffont, editor, Aggregation and Revelation of Preferences
  • Incentives in Public Decision Making, with J. Green, 1979.
  • "A Differentiable Approach to Dominant Strategy Mechanisms" with E. Maskin,1980, Econometrica
  • Essays in the Economics of Uncertainty, 1980.
  • "The Theory of Incentives" with  E. Maskin, 1982, in Hildenbrand, editor, Advances in Economic Theory
  • "A Competitive Entrepreneurial Model of a Stock Market", with R. Kihlstrom, 1982, in McCall, editor, Economics of Information and Uncertainty.
  • "Taxation and Risk-Taking in General Equilibrium Models with Free Entry", with R. Kihlstrom, 1983, JPubE
  • "Control of Public Firms under Incomplete Information", with R. Guesnerie, 1984, JPubE
  • "A Complete Solution to a Class of a Principal Agent Problems with an Application to the Control of a Self-Managed Firm", with R. Guesnerie, 1984, JPubE
  • "Incitations dans le precedures de planification", 1985, Annales de INSEE.
  • "On the Welfare Analysis of Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Asymmetric Information", 1985, Econometrica.
  • The Economics of Uncertainty and Information, 1986.
  • "Using Cost Observation to Regulate Firms", with J. Tirole, 1986, JPE.
  • "Optimal Non-Linear Pricing with Two-Dimensional Characteristics" with   E. Maskin and J.C. Rochet, 1987, in Groves et al., editors, Information, Incentives and Economic Mechanisms
  • "Sunspots in Finite Horizon Models", in Essays in Honor of Edmond Malinvaud.
  • "Incentive Compatability of Insurance Contracts and the Value of Information", with C.P. Cresta, 1987, J  Risk and Insurance.
  • "Monopoly with Asymmetric Information about Quality", with E. Maskin, 1987, Econometrica
  • Fundamentals of Public Economics, 1988.
  • "The Dynamics of Incentive Contracts", with J. Tirole, 1988, Econometrica.

HET

 

top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Resources on Jean-Jacques Laffont

 

 
top1.gif (924 bytes)Top
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All rights reserved, Gonçalo L. Fonseca