Jean-Charles Rochet

French economist of banking, financial stability, and contract theory

bankingfinancial stabilitycontract theory

Official Source Note

The University of Geneva lists Rochet as Honorary Professor and records his research and publications in banking, financial stability, the industrial organization of financial markets, and contract theory.

Rochet is included because interbank connections, liquidity provision, and supervisory intervention transform private banking contracts into public financial-stability questions.

Source: University of Geneva School of Economics and Management

Relevance to the Archive

Rochet supplies the analytical bridge between bank-level incentive problems and system-level legal design, including liquidity support, capital regulation, contagion, and supervisory intervention.

Representative Contributions

Systemic Risk, Interbank Relations, and Liquidity Provision by the Central Bank (with Xavier Freixas and Bruno M. Parigi, 2000)
Microeconomics of Banking (with Xavier Freixas, 1997; 2nd ed. 2008)
Balancing the Banks (with Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole, 2010)