Speaker

Alain TRANNOY

Member - Cercle des économistes

Present positions :

• Research Director at the École des Hautes en Sciences Sociales
• Director of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics
• Member of the Economic Council of Sustainable Development
• Former member of the Conseil d’analyse économique ( Council of Economic Analysis)
• Scientific adviser at France stratégie
• Member (Elected) of the Council of the Society of Social Choice and Welfare, 2010
• Member (Elected) of the Council of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) 2013-
• Past-president of the French Economic Association (AFSE) 2015-2016

Positions held :

• Chairman of the Economic Department of the University of Cergy-Pontoise
• Vice-President in charge of research of the University of Cergy-Pontoise
• Manager of the research center THEMA UMR CNRS
• Director of IDEP (Institut of Public Economics), Marseille
• Member of the Council of the Compulsory Duties (CPO), 2011-2014.
• Member of the Council for the development of humanities and social science 2008-2014
• President of the French Economic Association (AFSE) 2014-2015

Education :

• Agregation in Economics
• Docteur d’Etat in Economics

Main publications (recent)

• “Tax me if you can: Optimal Non Linear Income tax between Competing Governments”  Quarterly Journal of Economics (with Lehmann and  L.Simula) 2014 129: 1995-2030
• « Even (mixed) risk lovers are prudent » American Economic Review 2013, 103, 1529-35. (with David Crainich and Louis Eckhoudt)
• « Equality of Opportunity » in Handbook of Income Inequality vol, 2A Editors A.Atkinson and F.Bourguignon, Chapter 4 2015 217-300. (with John Roemer)
• “Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market” Journal of Labor Economics 2016, Vol. 34, No. 1, Part 1, 107-160 (with P.Combes, B.Decreuse, M.Laouenan)
• “Student loan and graduate tax under moral hazard and adverse selection”  Rand Journal of Economics  2015, 46-3  546-576 (with R. Gary-Bobo)
• « Equality of Opportunity : Theory and Measurement” forthcoming in Journal of Economic Literature (with John Roemer)

Economic field of expertise:

inequality measurement and inequality of opportunity, taxation and redistribution, housing economics, economics of higher education, voting and social justice, public economics