Oliver Hart
Papers on the Web and Recently Published Papers
How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points? with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder, October 2012.
Inefficient provision of liquidity with Luigi Zingales, March 2011, revised January 2012.
Contracts as Reference Points-Experimental Evidence, with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder, American Economic Review, April 2011.
Noncontractible Investments and Reference Points January 2011, revised March 2011.
Thinking about the Firm: A Review of Daniel Spulber's The Theory of the Firm, 2011, Journal of Economic Literature, 49:1 pp. 101-113.
A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions, with Luigi Zingales, Fall 2011, American Law and Economics Review.
A Theory of Firm Scope, with Bengt Holmstrom, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2010.
“Curbing Risk on Wall Street”, with Luigi Zingales, National Affairs, Spring, 2010, no.3.
"How to Make a Distressed Bank Raise Equity", with Luigi Zingales, Financial Times, February 8, 2010.
"How the Tricks that Crashed Wall Street Can Save the World", with Luigi Zingales, Foreign Policy, December 3, 2009.
Contracts, Reference Points, and Competition - Behavioral Consequences of the Fundamental Transformation, with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2009.
Regulation and Sarbanes-Oxley, Journal of Accounting Research, May 2009
"To Regulate Finance, Try the Market" with Luigi Zingales, Foreign Policy, March 30, 2009.
Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2009.
Debt Enforcement Around the World, with Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, and Andrei Shleifer, Journal of Political Economy, December 2008.
" Economists Have Abandoned Principle" with Luigi Zingales, Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2008.
Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm, Economica, August 2008. (Inaugural Coase Lecture.)
Contracts as Reference Points, with John Moore, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008.
Incomplete Contracts and Ownership: Some New Thoughts, with John Moore, American Economic Review, May 2007.
On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization, with John Moore, Journal of Political Economy, August 2005.
Incomplete Contracts and Public Ownership: Remarks, and an Application to Public-Private Partnerships, Economic Journal, March 2003.
Financial Contracting, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2001.
Takeover Bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control with Lucian Bebchuck, October 2001.
Norms and the Theory of the Firm, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, June 2001.
Different Approaches to Bankruptcy, in Governance, Equity and Global Markets, Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Europe, June 21-23, 1999 (Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 2000).
Cooperatives vs. Outside Ownership, with John Moore, February 1998.
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