Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Share the 2016 Nobel Price in Economics

The Nobel committee announced today that for their work in contract theory Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström won the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Honor of Alfred Nobel. Charles Duxbury and Mike Bird report on it in the Wall Street Journal today. Moreover the Journal reported in a video:

Evan Peterson, "Why Bengt Holmström, is An Economist You Should Know," Open Markets, October 21, 201.