Bengt R. Holmström

Bengt Holmström Robert ( born April 18, 1949 in Helsinki ) is a professor of economics. Currently ( 2007), he teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Life

His university education with mathematics, physics and statistics Bengt Holmström graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science at the University of Helsinki from. This he concluded an operations research study at Stanford University in 1975 where he earned a Master of Science. The year before his son Sam was born. He was then for three more years at the University and received his Ph.D. here Then Holmström spent a year as a lecturer at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. In 1979 he returned back to the U.S. where he first taught as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and as a lecturer from 1980 business administration. In 1983 he left the Northwestern University and went to Yale University as a professor of economics and organization. In 1997 he was professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scientific Work

In addition to his appointment as a full professor Bengt Holmström conditions made ​​several guest professorships. For example, from 1985 to 1986. At Stanford University from 1991 to 1992 at the Graduate School of Helsinki, from 1996 to 1999 at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1999 at the University of Helsinki and most recently in the fall of 2006 at the University of Chicago He has been repeatedly awarded with a honorary doctorate, so from the Stockholm School of Economics (1998), the Swedish School of Economics and the University of Vaasa ( 1988).