Oliver Hart
Papers on the Web and Recently Published Papers
A Theory of Firm Scope, with Bengt Holmstrom, November 2009; forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics
A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions, with Luigi Zingales, September 2009.
Contracts as Reference Points-Experimental Evidence, with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder, August 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.
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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