Bengt Robert Holmström

E680263

Bengt Robert Holmström is a Finnish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to contract theory and the economics of incentives.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bengt Holmström 2
Bengt Robert Holmström canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel laureate
economist
human
academicDegree Doctor of Philosophy in economics
awardReceived Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel Prize in Economics 2016
Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics
Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics
coRecipientOf Nobel Prize in Economics with Oliver Hart
linked to: Oliver Hart
countryOfCitizenship Finland
United States of America
educatedAt Stanford University
University of Helsinki
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Yale University
familyName Holmström
fieldOfWork contract theory
corporate governance
economics
information economics
microeconomics
principal–agent theory
theory of incentives
givenName Bengt
languageSpoken English
Finnish
Swedish
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Econometric Society
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
name Bengt Robert Holmström
notableFor analysis of principal–agent problems
foundational contributions to contract theory
research on incentives in contracts
notableIdea Holmström–Milgrom model of multitask principal–agent problems
Holmström’s informativeness principle
occupation research economist
university professor
positionHeld Board member of Nokia
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT
Professor of Economics at MIT
researchInterest corporate ownership and control
incomplete contracts
moral hazard
optimal contracting
performance-based compensation
sexOrGender male

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bengt Holmström name Bengt Robert Holmström
Bengt Robert Holmström name Bengt Robert Holmström
Holmström hasNotableBearer Bengt Holmström
linked to: Bengt Robert Holmström
Moral Hazard and Observability author Bengt Holmström
linked to: Bengt Robert Holmström