The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
Awarded on: 2016-10-10
"for their contributions to contract theory"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Bengt Holmström
Born: 1949-04-18 in Helsinki, Finland
Gender: male
Field: Finnish economist and Nobel laureate (born 1949)
Biography
Bengt Robert Holmström 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.