What is Bengt Holmström?
{{Infobox economist |name = |school_tradition = |color = |image = Bengt Holmström.jpg |caption = Bengt Holmström (2013) |birth_name = Bengt Robert Holmström |birth_date = {{birth date and age |1949|4|18|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] |death_date = |death_place= |nationality = [[Finland|Finnish]] |field = |institutions = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Helsinki]] * [[Stanford University]] * [[Northwestern University]] * [[Yale University]] * [[MIT]]}} |alma_mater = [[University of Helsinki]] (BS)<br>[[Stanford University]] (MS, PhD) | doctoral_advisor = [[Robert B. Wilson]] | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = [[Jonathan Levin (economist)|Jonathan Levin]]<ref>{{cite thesis |last= Levin |first= Jonathan David |date= 1999 |title= Relational contracts, incentives and information |type= Ph.D. |chapter= |publisher= [[MIT]] |docket= |oclc= |hdl= 1721.1/9520 }}</ref> | notable_students = |influences = |influenced = | contributions = |awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2016) }} {{nobelprize|Economics}} '''Bengt Robert Holmström''' (born 18 April 1949) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[economist]]. He is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. With [[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]], he received the Central Bank of Sweden [[Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news | last = Appelbaum | first = Binyamin | title = Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Win Nobel in Economics for Work on Contracts | newspaper = New York Times | date = October 10, 2016 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/business/nobel-economics-oliver-hart-bengt-holmstrom.html | access-date = October 10, 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmstrom, Bengt}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Economists]] [[Category:Finnish Nobel Prize winner