Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT)

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Bengt Holmström is a Finnish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in contract theory and his long tenure as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
economist
human
awardReceived Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
surface form: 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Honorary doctorate from Hanken School of Economics
Honorary doctorate from Stockholm School of Economics
Honorary doctorate from University of Vaasa
Leo Melamed Prize
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Yrjö Jahnsson Award
countryOfCitizenship Finland
dateOfBirth 1949-04-18
degree Master’s degree in mathematics
PhD in operations research
doctoralAdvisor Robert B. Wilson
doctoralThesis On Incentives and Control in Organizations
educatedAt Stanford University
University of Helsinki
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Stockholm School of Economics
surface form: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Yale University
familyName Holmström
fieldOfWork contract theory
economics
information economics
microeconomics
theory of the firm
givenName Bengt
knownFor foundational contributions to contract theory
principal–agent theory
research on incentives in organizations
languageSpoken English
Finnish
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Econometric Society
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
name Bengt Robert Holmström
nationality Finnish
NobelPrizeDiscipline Economic Sciences
NobelPrizeMotivation for their contributions to contract theory
NobelPrizeYear 2016
notableWork Moral Hazard and Observability
The Theory of Contracts
placeOfBirth Helsinki
surface form: Helsinki, Finland
positionHeld Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics at MIT
Professor of Economics at Yale University
residence United States of America
surface form: United States
sharedNobelPrizeWith Oliver Hart

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Uppsala University hasNotableAlumnus Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT)