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Oliver D. Hart, 1948- 

British economic theorist.

Oliver D'Arcy Hart obtained his undergraduate degree in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge in 1969 and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1974.  He proceeded on to become a fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.  In 1981, Hart became professor of economics at the LSE in 1981.  In 1985, Oliver Hart moved to the United States, becoming professor at MIT.  Hart was lured down the avenue to join the faculty at Harvard in 1993.

 

 

  


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Major Works of Oliver D. Hart

  • "On the Application of Portfolio Theory to Depository Financial Intermediaries" with D. Jaffee, 1974.
  • "On the Existence of Equilibrium in a Securities Model,", 1974, JET
  • "On the Optimality of Equilibrium when the Market Structure is Incomplete," 1975,  JET
  • "Some Negative Results on the Existence of Comparative Statics Properties in Portfolio Theory," 1975, RES
  • "A Proof of the Existence of Equilibrium Without the Free Disposal Assumption" with H. Kuhn, 1975, JMathE.
  • "On the Profitability of Speculation,", 1977, QJE
  • "Take-Over Bids and Stock Market Equilibrium,", 1977, JET
  • "A Theory of Competitive Equilibrium in Stock Market Economies", with S.J. Grossman, 1979, Econometrica
  • "Take-Over Bids, the Free Rider Problem and the Theory of the Corporation", with S.J. Grossman, 1980, Bell JE.
  • "Perfect Competition and Optimal Product Differentiation," 1980, JET
  • "Disclosure Laws and Take-Over Bids" with S.J. Grossman, 1980, J of Finance
  • "Take-Over Bids, the Managerial Theory of the Firm and the Free Rider Problem" with S.J. Grossman, 1980, in Currie and W. Peters, editors, Contemporary Economic Analysis
  • "Implicit Contracts, Moral Hazard, and Unemployment", with S.J. Grossman, 1981, AER
  • "The Allocational Role of Takeover Bids in Situations of Asymmetric Information", with S.J. Grossman, 1981, J of Finance
  • "A Model of Imperfect Competition with Keynesian Features", 1982, QJE
  • "Corporate Financial Structure and Managerial Incentives" with S.J. Grossman, 1982,  in McCall, editor, Economics of Information and Uncertainty
  • "An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem" with S.J. Grossman, 1983, Econometrica
  • "Implicit Contracts Under Asymmetric Information" with S.J. Grossman, 1983, QJE
  • "Optimal Labour Contracts under Asymmetric Information: An Introduction," 1983, RES
  • "The Market Mechanism As an Incentive Scheme," 1983, Bell JE
  • "Unemployment with Observable Aggregate Shocks", with S.J. Grossman and E.S. Maskin, 1983, JPE
  • "Welfare Losses Due to Imperfect Competition: Asymptotic Results for Cournot-Nash Equilibria with and without Free Entry", with R. Guesnerie, 1985, IER
  • "Monopolistic Competition in the Spirit of Chamberlin: A General Model,", 1985, RES
  • "Monopolistic Competition in the Spirit of Chamberlin: Special Results", 1985, EJ
  • "Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium: An Overview of Recent Work" 1985, in Arrow and Honkapohja, editors, Frontiers of Economics.
  • "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" with  S.J. Grossman, 1986, JPE
  • "Price Destabilizing Speculation" with D.M. Kreps, 1986, JPE
  • "The Theory of Contracts" with B. Holmstrom, 1987, in Bewley, editor, Advances in Economic Theory
  • "One Share/One Vote and the Market for Corporate Control"with  S.J. Grossman, 1988, J of Finance
  • "Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm,", 1988, J of Law, Econ and Organization
  • "Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation" with J. Moore, 1988, Econometrica
  • "Contract Renegotiation and Coasian Dynamics" with J. Tirole, 1988, RES
  • "Bargaining and Strikes," 1989, QJE
  • "An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm,", 1990, Columbia Law Review
  • "Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm", with J. Moore, 1990, JPE
  • "Production Fluctuations and Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Shocks" with E. Maskin, 1992,  in Dasgupta et al, editors, Economic Analysis of Markets and Games
  • "A Theory of Debt Based on the Inalienability of Human Capital", with J. Moore, 1994, QJE
  • "Debt and Seniority: An Analysis of the Role of Hard Claims in Constraining Management" with J. Moore, 1995, AER
  • "Corporate Governance: Some Theory and Implications", 1995, EJ
  • Firms, Contracts and Financial Structure, 1995
  • "Default and Renegotiation: A Dynamic Model of Debt" with J. Moore, 1998, QJE.

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