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5th Annual CME Group-MSRI Prize event September 13, 2010
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Professor Jean Tirole, 2010 Recipient of the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative
Quantitative Applications
The fifth annual CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications will be awarded to Professor Jean Tirole, Scientific Director of Industrial Economics Institute (IDEI) and Member of the Toulouse School of Economics, on Monday, September 13 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. By invitation only.

Prior to the award ceremony, a seminar entitled “Macro-prudential regulation of the financial system: Implications of recent financial legislation and the ongoing Basel process on new capital and liquidity requirements” will be held with moderator Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize winning economist and Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business. The panelists include Anat Admati, George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Douglas Diamond, Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor and George P. Shultz Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and Kevin Stiroh, economist in Banking Studies at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Video of the panel will be archived on the CME Group website at http://www.cmegroup.com/msri.

The annual CME Group-MSRI Prize will be awarded to an individual or a group, to recognize originality and innovation in the use of mathematical, statistical or computational methods for the study of the behavior of markets, and more broadly of economics.


Previous recipients of the CME Group-MSRI Prize and Medal:
2009: Sanford J. Grossman, Chairman and CEO, Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
2008: Lars Peter Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago
2007: David M. Kreps, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2006: Stephen A. Ross, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

2010 CME Group-MSRI Prize Selection Committee:
Myron Scholes (Prize Committee Chair), Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Anat Admati, George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Robert Bryant, Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, James and Doris McNamara Faculty Fellow for 2009-2010, Stanford Graduate School of Business
John Gould, Steven G. Rothmeier Professor and Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Lars Peter Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago and 2008 recipient of the CME-MSRI Prize
David M. Kreps, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and 2007 recipient of the CME-MSRI Prize
Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus, CME Group
Robert C. Merton, School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jose A. Scheinkman, Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics

Medal awarded to the winner of the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications (Ben Blackwell photography)


For more information about the CME Group's Center for Innovation, please visit: CFI