Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
[5] Bénabou has published numerous papers with Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole.
[6] Bénabou's research spans both macroeconomic and microeconomic areas, such as the interplay of inflation and imperfect competition, or speculation and manipulation in financial markets.
The first links inequality, growth, social mobility and the political economy of redistribution.
It focuses in particular on extrinsic incentives versus intrinsic motivation, on the determinants of prosocial behavior and on motivated beliefs, both individual (overconfidence, wishful thinking, identity) and collective (groupthink, market manias, ideology, religion).