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Bengt Holmstrom

Bengt Holmstrom

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
60
Citations
71520
World Ranking
789
National Ranking
490

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their contributions to contract theory".
  • 2016 - Nobel Prize for their contributions to contract theory
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Bengt Holmstrom is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a specific focus on Finance as a subfield of study.

The scientist's work addresses topics including:

  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

Holmstrom has published research in several academic venues. These include:

  • Annual Review of Financial Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Holmstrom cover various finance-related themes. Notable publications include:

  • "The Information View of Financial Crises," 2020, Annual Review of Financial Economics
  • "Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus in the Digital Era," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "IESE ECGI Conference on Corporate Purpose: Can Purpose Deliver Better Corporate Governance?," 2021, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

Holmstrom frequently collaborates with other scholars. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Patrick Bolton
  • Tri Vi Dang
  • Gary Gorton
  • Long Chen
  • Eric Maskin

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through multiple awards. These include:

  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics, 2016, for contributions to contract theory
  • Nobel Prize, 2016, for contributions to contract theory
  • Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA), 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1983

Best Publications

  • Moral Hazard and Observability

    Bengt Holmstrom

  • Moral Hazard and Observability

    Bengt Holmstrom

  • Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design

    Bengt Holmstrom;Paul Milgrom

  • Moral Hazard in Teams

    Bengt Holmstrom

  • Financial Intermediation, Loanable Funds, and The Real Sector

    B. Holmstrom;Jean Marcal Pierre Tirole

  • AGGREGATION AND LINEARITY IN THE PROVISION OF INTERTEMPORAL INCENTIVES

    Bengt Robert Holmström;Paul R. Milgrom

  • Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective

    Bengt Holmstrom

  • Private and Public Supply of Liquidity

    Bengt R. Holmstrom;Jean Tirole

  • The Firm as an Incentive System

    Bengt Holmstrom;Paul Milgrom

  • Market Liquidity and Performance Monitoring

    Bengt Holmström;Jean Tirole

  • The theory of contracts

    Oliver Hart;Bengt Holmström

  • AGENCY COSTS AND INNOVATION

    Bengt Holmstrom

  • The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited

    Bengt Holmstrom;John Roberts

  • The Internal Economics of the Firm: Evidence from Personnel Data

    George P. Baker;Michael Gibbs;Bengt Holmstrom

  • Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the United States: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

    Bengt Holmstrom;Steven N. Kaplan

  • A Theory of Wage Dynamics

    Milton Harris;Bengt Holmstrom

  • EFFICIENT AND DURABLE DECISION RULES WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION

    Bengt Holmstrom;Roger B. Myerson

  • The Wage Policy of a Firm

    George P. Baker;Michael Gibbs;Bengt Holmstrom

  • Managerial Incentives and Capital Management

    Bengt Holmstrom;Joan Ricart i Costa

  • Short-term contracts and long-term agency relationships

    Drew Fudenberg;Bengt Holmstrom;Paul Milgrom

  • The firm as a subeconomy

    B Holmstrom

  • LAPM: A Liquidity-Based Asset Pricing Model

    Bengt Holmström;Jean Tirole

  • The economic nature of the firm: Multitask principal–agent analyses: incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design

    Bengt Holmstrom;Paul Milgrom

  • The economic nature of the firm: The boundaries of the firm revisited

    Bengt Holmstrom;John Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics
Gary B. Gorton
Gary B. Gorton Yale University
Steven N. Kaplan
Steven N. Kaplan University of Chicago
Paul Milgrom
Paul Milgrom Stanford University
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart Harvard University
Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth Stanford University
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin Harvard University
Roger B. Myerson
Roger B. Myerson University of Chicago
John Roberts
John Roberts Rice University

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