ET Interview: Jean-Pierre Florens

Abstract

Jean-Pierre Florens has spent most of his career at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). With numerous coauthors he has made influential contributions to a wide range of different topics in econometrics and statistics, including treatment effects, Bayesian inference, econometrics of stochastic processes, causality, frontier estimation, econometrics of game-theoretic models, the GMM with continuum of moment conditions, the first rigorous treatment of the nonparametric instrumental variables regression as an ill-posed inverse problem, and more generally contributed to the development of the theory of ill-posed inverse models in econometrics. He has published several monographs, including a rigorous first-year econometrics textbook, and has advised more than 50 Ph.D. students.

Keywords: Jean-Pierre Florens

JEL Classification: B23, B31, B41