Patrick Bolton

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Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business

Finance and Economics

B.A., Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1979; B.A., University of Cambridge, 1982; M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1983; Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1986.

Year joined: 2005

E-mail: pb2208@columbia.edu


Journal articles

"Capital Access Bonds: Contingent Capital with an Option to Convert"
Economic Policy (2012)

Coauthor(s): Frederic Samama

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"Outside and Inside Liquidity"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011)

Coauthor(s): Tano Santos, José Scheinkman

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"Credit Default Swaps and the Empty Creditor Problem"
Review of Financial Studies (2011)

Coauthor(s): Martin Oehmke

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"Sovereign Default Risk in Financially Integrated Economies"
IMF Economic Review (2011)

Coauthor(s): Olivier Jeanne

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"Why bank governance is different"
Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2011)

Coauthor(s): Marco Becht

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"Market and Public Liquidity"
American Economic Review (2009)

Coauthor(s): Tano Santos, José Scheinkman

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"Redesigning the International Lender of Last Resort"
Chicago Journal of International Law (2005)


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"Incomplete Social Contracts"
Journal of the European Economic Association (2003)

Coauthor(s): Philippe Aghion

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"Political Intervention in Debt Contracts"
Journal of Political Economy (2002)

Coauthor(s): Howard Rosenthal

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"The Great Divide and Beyond: Financial Architecture in Transition"
Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)

Coauthor(s): Erik Berglof

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"Predatory Pricing: Strategic Theory and Legal Policy"
Georgetown Law Journal (2001)


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"Strategic Experimentation"
Econometrica (1999)

Coauthor(s): Christopher Harris

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"Blocks, Liquidity, and Corporate Control"
Journal of Finance (1998)

Coauthor(s): Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

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"Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organization"
Journal of Economic Perspectives (1998)

Coauthor(s): David Scharfstein

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"The Breakup of Nations: A Political Economy Analysis"
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1997)

Coauthor(s): Gerard Roland

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"A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth and Development"
Review of Economic Studies (1997)

Coauthor(s): Philippe Aghion

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"The Firm as a Communication Network"
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1994)

Coauthor(s): Mathias Dewatripont

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"Incomplete Contracts, Vertical Integration, and Supply Assurance"
Review of Economic Studies (1993)

Coauthor(s): Michael Whinston

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"Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe"
Economic Policy (1992)

Coauthor(s): Gerard Roland

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"An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting"
Review of Economic Studies (1992)

Coauthor(s): Philippe Aghion

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"Decentralization, Duplication, and Delay"
Journal of Political Economy (1990)

Coauthor(s): Joseph Farrell

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"A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting"
American Economic Review (1990)

Coauthor(s): David Scharfstein

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"Contracts as a Barrier to Entry"
American Economic Review (1987)

Coauthor(s): Philippe Aghion

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Working papers

"Cream skimming in financial markets"
Working paper (2013)

Coauthor(s): Tano Santos, José Scheinkman

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"Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?"
Working Paper (2012)

Coauthor(s): Martin Oehmke

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"Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management"
Working paper (2011)

Coauthor(s): Hui Chen, Neng Wang

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"Towards an International Green Fund"
Working Paper (2010)

Coauthor(s): Roger Guesnerie, Frederic Samama

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"L-Shares: Rewarding Long-term Investors"
Working Paper (2010)

Coauthor(s): Frederic Samama

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"Executive Compensation and Risk Taking"
Working Paper (2010)

Coauthor(s): Hamid Mehran, Joel Shapiro

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"The Dynamics of Optimal Risk Sharing"
Working Paper Series No. 16094 (2010)

Coauthor(s): Christopher Harris

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"Intracompany Governance and Innovation"
Working Paper Series No, 15304 (2009)

Coauthor(s): Sharon Belenzon,

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"Pay for Short-Term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Markets"
mimeo (2004)

Coauthor(s): José Scheinkman, Wei Xiong

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Books

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing
(2011)

Coauthor(s): Frederic Samama, Joseph Stiglitz

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Contract Theory
(2005)

Coauthor(s): Mathias Dewatripont

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Credit Markets for the Poor
(2005)

Coauthor(s): Howard Rosenthal

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Chapters

"Covenant Lite Lending, Liquidity and Standardization of Financial Contracts"
Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law (2011)

Coauthor(s): Kenneth Ayotte

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"Corporate Governance and Control"
Handbook of the Economics of Finance (2003)


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Magazine articles

"How to Prepare for Financial Meltdowns"
Forbes.com (2009)

Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Tano Santos

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