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
• Member of the Conseil d’analyse économique ( Council of Economic Analysis)
• Scientific adviser at France stratégie
• President of the French Economic Association (AFSE) 2014-2015
• 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-

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 sciences

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 E.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” forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics (with P.Combes, B.Decreuse, M.Laouenan)
•  “Student loan and graduate tax under moral hazard and adverse selection” forthcoming in  the Rand Journal of Economics  (with R. Gary-Bobo)
•  « Universities as non-profit partnership” Revue Economique 2015, 66, 13-36. (With R. Gary-Bobo)

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