She taught in several French universities from 1972 through 1986, and earned a habilitation in 1988, but by 1986 she had already moved to the University of Southern California in the US.[2][4]
In 1991 she moved to the department of economics at the University of California, Davis and remained there until her retirement in 2016, serving two terms as department chair from 1995 to 1999 and 2006 to 2007.[1]
Books
Quinzii wrote a French monograph on econometrics, Rendements Croissants et Efficacité Economique (CNRS, 1988) as her habilitation thesis,[2] and wrote the book Increasing Returns and Efficiency (Oxford University Press, 1992).[5] With Michael Magill (her husband),[4] she was the author of Theory of Incomplete Markets (MIT Press, 1996),[6] 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).[4]
