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2024

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Economics and Finance

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77
Citations
41403
World Ranking
315
National Ranking
32

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  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Patrick Bolton is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on medicine, with 17 publications in this field. Within medicine, Bolton's research spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, genetics, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's research topics include autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), tuberous sclerosis complex research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, children's physical and motor development, and child development and digital technology.

Notable recent papers by Patrick Bolton include the following:

  • "Guidance for identification and treatment of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder based upon expert consensus," 2020, BMC Medicine
  • "A framework for an evidence-based gene list relevant to autism spectrum disorder," 2020, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: The Science of Early-Life Precursors and Interventions for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder," 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Neural and behavioural indices of face processing in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A longitudinal study from infancy to mid-childhood," 2020, Cortex
  • "Autism Spectrum Disorder and Mental Health Problems: Patterns of Difficulties and Longitudinal Trajectories in a Population-Based Twin Sample," 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Frequent co-authors in Bolton's publications are Charlotte Tye, Emily J. H. Jones, Tony Charman, Mark H. Johnson, and Elizabeth Shephard. These collaborations reflect a focus on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric topics.

Bolton's research has appeared in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, BMC Medicine, Nature Reviews Genetics, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Cortex. Medical and neuroscience journals represent a key outlet for their work, often addressing developmental conditions and interventions.

Best Publications

  • An incomplete contracts approach to financial contracting

    Philippe Aghion;Patrick Bolton

  • A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting

    Patrick Bolton;David S Scharfstein

  • A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth and Development

    Philippe Aghion;Patrick Bolton

  • Optimal Debt Structure and the Number of Creditors

    Patrick Bolton;David S. Scharfstein

  • Corporate Governance and Control

    Marco Becht;Patrick Bolton;Ailsa Röell

  • Contracts as a barrier to entry

    P. Aghion;P. Bolton

  • The Credit Ratings Game

    Patrick Bolton;Xavier Freixas;Joel Shapiro

  • The Breakup of Nations: A Political Economy Analysis

    Patrick Bolton;Gérard Roland

  • Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk

    Patrick Bolton;Marcin Kacperczyk

  • The firm as a communication network

    Patrick Bolton;Mathias Dewatripont

  • A Unified Theory of Tobin's q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

    Patrick Bolton;Hui Chen;Neng Wang

  • Blocks, liquidity and corporate control

    Patrick Bolton;Ernst-Ludwig Von Thadden

  • Equity, bonds and bank debt : Capital structure and financial market equilibrium under asymmetric information

    Patrick Bolton;Xavier Freixas

  • Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behaviour in Speculative Markets

    Patrick Bolton;Jose Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • Relationship and Transaction Lending in a Crisis

    Patrick Bolton;Xavier Freixas;Leonardo Gambacorta;Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

  • Leverage, Moral Hazard, and Liquidity

    Viral V. Acharya;S. Viswanathan

  • The Great Divide and Beyond - Financial Architecture in Transition

    Erik Berglof;Patrick Bolton

  • Executive Compensation and Risk Taking

    Patrick Bolton;Hamid Mehran;Joel Shapiro

  • Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies

    Patrick Bolton;Olivier Jeanne

  • Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management

    Patrick Bolton;Patrick Bolton;Patrick Bolton;Hui Chen;Hui Chen;Neng Wang;Neng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Xavier Freixas
Xavier Freixas Barcelona School of Economics
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Jose A. Scheinkman
Jose A. Scheinkman Columbia University
Mathias Dewatripont
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Olivier Jeanne
Olivier Jeanne Johns Hopkins University
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong Princeton University
Marcin T. Kacperczyk
Marcin T. Kacperczyk Imperial College London
Ailsa Röell
Ailsa Röell Columbia University
David S. Scharfstein
David S. Scharfstein Harvard University

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