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Martine Quinzii (died May 25, 2018) was a French mathematical economist known for her work in
financial market A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks and bonds, raw materials and precious metals, which are known in the financial marke ...
s,
incomplete markets In economics, incomplete markets are markets in which there does not exist an Arrow–Debreu security for every possible state of nature. In contrast with complete markets, this shortage of securities will likely restrict individuals from transferr ...
,
macroeconomics Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output (econ ...
, and
general equilibrium theory In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an ov ...
.


Education and career

Quinzii studied mathematics at the University of Paris VI, earning a master's degree in 1970, an
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in mathematics in 1971, and a Master of Advanced Studies in 1972. 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. She taught in several French universities from 1972 through 1986, and earned a
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...
in 1988, but by 1986 she had already moved to the
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in the US. In 1991 she moved to the department of economics at the
University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...
and remained there until her retirement in 2016, serving two terms as department chair from 1995 to 1999 and 2006 to 2007.


Books

Quinzii wrote a French monograph on
econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...
, ''Rendements Croissants et Efficacité Economique'' (CNRS, 1988) as her
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...
thesis, and wrote the book ''Increasing Returns and Efficiency'' (Oxford University Press, 1992). With Michael Magill (her husband), she was the author of ''Theory of Incomplete Markets'' (MIT Press, 1996), 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).


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.


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