Patrick Bolton
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Patrick Bolton (born June 11, 1957, Dublin, Ireland) is the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School (2005-present)[1] and a Visiting Professor of Finance at Imperial College London (2018-present). He is a past president of the American Finance Association (2015).[2][3]
Patrick Bolton | |
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Born | (1957-06-11) June 11, 1957 (age 66) |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, London School of Economics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | Columbia Business School, Imperial College London and others |
Bolton specializes in contract theory and its relationship to corporate finance and industrial organization, in particular the allocation of control and decision rights to contracting parties.[1] He is studying the ways in which institutional investors and financial markets assess and respond to risks from climate change,[4] and how public policy influences corporate behaviour and the actions of institutions.[5][6][7]
Bolton has published a number of books, including Contract Theory (2004) with Mathias Dewatripont, Credit Markets for the Poor (2005) with Howard Rosenthal, The Economics of Contracts (2008), Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-term Investing (2012) with Frederic Samama and Joseph E. Stiglitz and Coping with the Climate Crisis: Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination (2018), with Rabah Arezki, Karim El Aynaoui and Maurice Obstfeld.[8]