Gérard Roland (economist)

Gérard Roland
Roland in 2009
Born	1954 Jemappes, Wallonia
Nationality	Belgian
Academic career
Institution	University of California, Berkeley
Field	Economics Political science
Alma mater	Free University of Brussels
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Gérard Roland (born 1954) is a Belgian economist, and a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels in 1988. His early work was on the political economy of communism. After 1990, he became one of the world's most renowned and influential scholars in transition economics. He is a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI.

Selected works

• "The Design of Reform Packages under Uncertainty", (with M. Dewatripont), American Economic Review, 1995, vol 83, pp. 107–1223
• Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms. MIT Press 2000

External links

• Roland's webpage in Berkeley