Martine Quinzii

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Martine Quinzii
Died25 May 2018
NationalityFrench-American
Institution University of California, Davis
Field financial markets
incomplete markets
macroeconomics
general equilibrium theory
Alma mater University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Pierre and Marie Curie University

Martine Quinzii (died May 25, 2018) was a French mathematical economist known for her work in financial markets, incomplete markets, macroeconomics, and general equilibrium theory. [1]

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Education and career

Quinzii studied mathematics at the University of Paris VI, earning a master's degree in 1970, an agrégation in mathematics in 1971, and a Master of Advanced Studies in 1972. [2] She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas in 1986. Her dissertation, Rendements croissants et équilibre général, was supervised by Jean Fericelli. [3]

She taught in several French universities from 1972 through 1986, and earned a habilitation in 1988, but by 1986 she had already moved to the University of Southern California in the US. [2] [4] In 1991 she moved to the department of economics at the University of California, Davis and remained there until her retirement in 2016, serving two terms as department chair from 1995 to 1999 and 2006 to 2007. [1]

Books

Quinzii wrote a French monograph on econometrics, Rendements Croissants et Efficacité Economique (CNRS, 1988) as her habilitation thesis, [2] and wrote the book Increasing Returns and Efficiency (Oxford University Press, 1992). [5] With Michael Magill (her husband), [4] she was the author of Theory of Incomplete Markets (MIT Press, 1996), [6] and of the two-volume work Incomplete Markets, Vol. I: Finite Horizon Economies and Incomplete Markets, Vol. II: Infinite Horizon Economies (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008). [4]

Recognition

Quinzii was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2000, and as a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2011. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 In memoriam: Martine Quinzii, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics, retrieved 2019-12-07
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum Vitae (PDF), 2016, retrieved 2019-12-07
  3. Martine Quinzii at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 3 4 Cornet, Bernard; Moulin, Hervé; Rochet, Jean-Charles (May 29, 2018), In memoriam: Martine Quinzii (PDF), retrieved 2019-12-07
  5. Reviews of Increasing Returns and Efficiency:
    • Yoon, Yong J. (October 1993), Southern Economic Journal, 60 (2): 538–540, doi:10.2307/1060121, JSTOR   1060121 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Sharkey, William W. (June 1994), Journal of Economic Literature, 32 (2): 689–691, JSTOR   2728708 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Reviews of Theory of Incomplete Markets:
    • Hens, T. (1997), Journal of Economics, 66 (3): 309–312, JSTOR   41794625 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hahn, Frank (November 1997), The Economic Journal, 107 (445): 1898–1900, JSTOR   2957922 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Werner, Jan (June 1998), Journal of Economic Literature, 36 (2): 944–945, JSTOR   2565130 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)