Bengt Holmström

Finnish economist and Nobel laureate
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Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist. He is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bengt Holmström
Bengt Holmström (2013)
Born
Bengt Robert Holmström

(1949-04-18) 18 April 1949 (age 74)
NationalityFinnish
Institutions
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki (BS)
Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Doctoral
advisor
Robert B. Wilson
Doctoral
students
Jonathan Levin[1]
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2016)

With Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.[2]

References change

  1. Levin, Jonathan David (1999). Relational contracts, incentives and information (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/9520.
  2. Appelbaum, Binyamin (October 10, 2016). "Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Win Nobel in Economics for Work on Contracts". New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2016.