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Two economists win Nobel prize for study on setting pay and rewards

British-born Oliver Hart and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Economics Prize for work that addresses a host of questions from how best to reward executives to whether schools and prisons should be privately owned.PHOTO: COURTESY

British-born Oliver Hart and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Economics Prize for work that addresses a host of questions from how best to reward executives to whether schools and prisons should be privately owned.

Their findings on contract theory have implications in such areas as corporate governance, bankruptcy legislation and political constitutions, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which announced the eight million Swedish crown ($928,000) prize yesterday.

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