Anti-Dismal

This is a revised edition of Walker (2017). New sections or subsections have been added on the X-inefficiency model, the division of labour ...

A point worth making about the modern models of the theory of the firm is that they illustrate a general issue to do with post-1970 microeco...

At the 2018 ASSA meeting Luigi Zingales delivered a lecture honouring Oliver Hart, co-winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for economics. In pa...

Organizational Economics Workshop Barcelona Graduate School of Economics 14-15 June 2018. A non-exhaustive list of topics is: Relatio...

A two minute answer to the question from Oliver Hart.

From the 2017 Royal Economic Society Conference comes this video of the talk by Oliver Hart, the Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic...

From the Presentation Speech by Professor Per Strömberg, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Nobel Committee f...

From Nobelprize.org : Oliver Hart : Incomplete Contracts and Control Oliver Hart delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2016 at the A...

Guy Rolnik interviews this year's Nobel Prize in Economics co-winner Professor Oliver Hart about incomplete contracts and the theory of ...

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka writes on Oliver Hart, Nobel laureate at VoxEU.org . As is well known by now Oliver Hart has been jointly awarded ...

Kevin Bryan writes at VoxEU.org on the key contributions of Bengt Holmstrom to the theory of contracts and its application to the theory o...

In a recent paper in the American Economic Review (vol. 106, no. 2, February 2016, pp.316-58) Rajshri Jayaraman, Debraj Ray and Francis de ...

One part of the contribution of Hart and Holmstrom that has not been emphasised in other coverage of the Nobel award is their huge contribut...

The  Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel   2016  was awarded jointly to  Oliver Hart   and  ...

This piece by Justin Fox at BloombergView is just one example of the increasing discussion of the move towards empirical work, away from t...

Over at the Offsetting Behaviour blog Eric Crampton quotes from the conclusion to my recent NZEP paper on  the theory of privatisation . E...