Recent U.S. elections have raised the question of whether “microtargeting,” the use of extensive online data to tailor persuasive messages to voters, has altered the playing field of politics.

The biennial prize recognizes an individual who had made outstanding contributions to the advancement of financial policy research or practice, which is the core mission of the MIT GCFP.

In their new book, “Power and Progress,” Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.

MIT Sloan researchers have developed a statistical method that investors and financial firms can use to value their existing data and/or a potential data stream that they are considering acquiring.

Dimitris Bertsimas and Nikolaos Trichakis modeled a points-based framework called continuous distribution (CD) based on AI and machine learning to aid in allocating lung transplants.

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.