KVDS
KARINE VAN DER STRAETEN
Fondation de la Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Directrice
Biography
Karine Van der Straeten is the Director General of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation - TSE, a research director at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
Her research lies at the intersection of economics and political science, and
focuses primarily on the mechanisms of collective decision-making in democracies.
Her recent research addresses, in particular, the links between institutions and corruption, the role of
citizen information in the quality of public decision-making, the measurement of public opinion,
as well as inequality and redistribution policies. Her approach combines
theoretical methods, based on microeconomic modeling and game theory, with
empirical methods, notably using experimental economics and surveys.
She was an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science and Mathematical Social Sciences, and served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review. Holding a PhD in economics from École Polytechnique, she held positions at École Polytechnique and the Paris School of Economics (as a CNRS research fellow and associate professor) before joining the Toulouse School of Economics in 2008.
In September 2026, she published the book co-authored with Jean Tirole, "Economics of Global Disorder – How Geopolitics Changed Everything."
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