Law & Economics
Portrait of Mathias Dewatripont
Scholar portraitSource: Barcelona School of Economics

Dewatripont

Mathias Dewatripont

Belgian economist of contract theory, organizations, and banking regulation

contract theoryorganization economicsbanking regulation

Official Source Note

The Université libre de Bruxelles describes Dewatripont's research in contract theory, industrial organization, organizational governance, and banking regulation and records his role in founding ECARES, his academic leadership, and his service at the National Bank of Belgium.

Dewatripont is included because contract theory and prudential regulation share a central problem: how institutions should allocate authority and incentives when information is incomplete and private decisions can impose public costs.

Source: Université libre de Bruxelles

Relevance to the Archive

Dewatripont bridges the archive's contract-theory and banking strands by showing how information, control rights, capital requirements, and regulatory commitment affect managers, banks, and supervisors.

Representative Contributions

  • The Prudential Regulation of Banks (with Jean Tirole, 1994)
  • Contract Theory (with Patrick Bolton, 2005)
  • Balancing the Banks: Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (with Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole, 2010)

Works Included Here