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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Olivier Blanchard[1] Jean Tirole[1] |
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| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral students | Eduardo Engel David Laibson[2] |
Roland Bénabou is a French economist, who is currently the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs atPrinceton University.[3] He is also aresearch associate at theCollège de France.[4]
Bénabou holdsengineering degrees from theEcole Polytechnique (1980) and theEcole des Ponts et Chaussées (1982). He received hisPh.D. ineconomics fromMIT in 1986.[5]
From 1986 to 1988, Bénabou began his career as aresearch associate at theCNRS. He then returned toMIT, first as anassistant professor (1988–1992), then as anassociate professor (1992–1994). Bénabou was eventually appointedfull professor atNYU in 1996.[5]
He joinedPrinceton'sfaculty in 1999.[5]
Bénabou has published numerous papers with Nobel LaureateJean Tirole.[6]
Bénabou's research spans both macroeconomic and microeconomic areas, such as the interplay of inflation and imperfect competition, or speculation and manipulation in financial markets. His recent work lies in three main areas. The first links inequality, growth, social mobility and the political economy of redistribution. The second centers on education, social interactions and the socioeconomic structure of cities. The third is that of economics and psychology ("behavioral economics"). It focuses in particular on extrinsic incentives versusintrinsic motivation, on the determinants of prosocial behavior and on motivated beliefs, both individual (overconfidence,wishful thinking, identity) and collective (groupthink, market manias,ideology, religion).[3]
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