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Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart , he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.
Bengt Holmström is a Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus at MIT. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to contract theory and the theory of incentives.
Bengt Holmström was born in Helsinki, Finland, and belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Helsinki and operations research at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, where he received his PhD in 1978.
Bengt Holmström is an emeritus professor of economics at MIT and a part-time professor at the European Institute University in Florence. He is a leading scholar of contract theory, corporate governance and liquidity problems, and won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 was awarded jointly to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström "for their contributions to contract theory"
MIT Sloan Professor Bengt Holmström has won the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Holmström, the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, was named winner of the award along with Oliver Hart, a professor and economist at Harvard University.
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Oct 10, 2016 · Holmström, a professor of economics and management at MIT, shares the 2016 prize with Oliver Hart for their work on contract theory. The award cites his insights on optimal contracts, incentives, and job design in various settings.
