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“On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.”

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Jean Tirole is a French economist renowned for his research in industrial organization, competition policy, and market structure. He began his in-depth study of competition policy in the early 1980s and proposed the famous 'duopoly model' in the 1990s. Professor Tirole was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his contributions to market theory. more

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