Jean Charles ROCHET

Jean-Charles Rochet is  a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holds Ph.D.in Mathematical Economics from Paris – Dauphine University  . His dissertation won the Arconati-Visconti award. He has taught in Paris, France (ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique) and London, U.K. ( B.P. visiting professor, London School of Economics, 2001-02). He is a Fellow  of the Econometric Society since 1995. He has also been council  member of European Economic Association, and associate editor of Econometrica . He is currently Professor of Economics at Toulouse University  and Research Director at Institut D’Economie Industrielle.  He has written more than 50 articles in international scientific journals (Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Rand Journal of Economics,…) and  3 textbooks , including Microeconomics of Banking (with X. FREIXAS) MIT Press (1997). His research interests include platform competition, nonlinear pricing, theory of contracts, banking crises, and solvency regulations for financial institutions.