Oliver Hart (economist)

Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
Born
Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart

(1948-10-09) October 9, 1948 (age 76)
London, England
NationalityBritish, American
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
University of Warwick (MA)
Princeton University (PhD)
SpouseRita B. Goldberg
FatherPhilip D'Arcy Hart
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsLaw and economics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
London School of Economics
ThesisEssays in the Economics of Uncertainty (1974)
Doctoral advisorMichael Rothschild
Doctoral studentsDavid S. Scharfstein[1]
Jeremy C. Stein[2]
Luigi Zingales[3]
Richard Holden

Sir Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart[a] (born October 9, 1948) is a British-born American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.

  1. ^ Scharfstein, David (1986). Market competition and incentives (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  2. ^ Stein, Jeremy C. (1986). Economic models with heterogeneously informed participants (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Zingales, Luigi (1992). The value of corporate control (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/13214?show=full. Retrieved December 8, 2016.


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