Jacques Lawarrée

Castor Professor of Economics

Contact Information

lawarree@uw.edu

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Fields of Interest

Contract Theory Electicity Markets Deregulation Game Theory Industrial Organization

Biography

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990

B.A., Economics, University of Liege, Belgium, 1984

Curriculum Vitae (96.22 KB)

Professor Lawarrée was Chair of the department from 2011-2014.

Research

Selected Research

Alex Henke, Fahad Khalil, Jacques Lawarree, "Honest Agents in a Corrupt Equilibrium," 2022 forthcoming in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
Indranil Chakraborty, Fahad Khalil, and Jacques Lawarree, "Competitive Procurement with Ex Post MoralHazard," 2021, The RAND Journal of Economics Download PDF
Khalil, Fahad, Jacques Lawarree, and Alexander Rodivilov, "Learning from Failures: Optimal contracts for experimentation and production," 2020, The Journal of Economic Theory. Download PDF
Fahad Khalil, Doyoung Kim and Jacques Lawarree, “Use it or Lose it”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019 Download PDF
Fahad Khalil, Jacques P. Lawarrée, and Troy Scott, "Private Monitoring, Collusion, and the Timing of Information," RAND Journal of Economics 46.4 (2015), 671–917.
Fahad Khalil, Doyoung Kim, and Jacques Lawarrée. "Contracts Offered by Bureaucrats." RAND Journal of Economics 44 (2013), 686-711.
Khalil, Fahad, Jacques Lawarrée, and Sungho Yun. "Bribery versus Extortion: Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils." The RAND Journal of Economics 41.1 (2010): 179-98. Print.
Kim, Doyoung, Jacques Lawarrée, and Dongsoo Shin. "Exit Option in Hierarchical Agency." International Journal of Industrial Organization 22.8-9 (2004): 1265-287. Print.
Khalil, Fahad, and Jacques Lawarrée. "Input versus Output Monitoring: Who Is the Residual Claimant?" Journal of Economic Theory 66.1 (1995): 139-57. Print.
Kofman, Alfredo, and Jacques Lawarrée. "Collusion in Hierarchical Agency." Econometrica 61.3 (1993): 629-56. Print.

Courses Taught

Spring 2025

ECON 485 A: Game Theory with Applications to Economics

Winter 2025

Autumn 2024

ECON 485 A: Game Theory with Applications to Economics

Spring 2024

ECON 485 A: Game Theory with Applications to Economics

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

ECON 485 A: Game Theory with Applications to Economics

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Spring 2022

ECON 485 A: Game Theory with Applications to Economics

Winter 2022

Affiliations

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