# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bengt-holmstrom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:34.962Z

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name: "Bengt Holmström"
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description: "Bengt Robert Holmström is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016."
tagline: "Finnish economist and Nobel laureate"
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birthDate: "1949-04-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump