Faculty

Members of the faculty in the MIT Sloan Applied Economics Group are exploring vital economic issues through leading-edge research like The Billion Prices Project, which uses prices collected daily from hundreds of online retailers around the world to conduct economic research. We also participate in interdisciplinary, cross-university initiatives like The E2e Project, which brings together economic and energy experts to understand the energy efficiency gap.

In the classroom, faculty delve deep into subjects including economic analysis for business decisions, international and applied macroeconomics, health economics, game theory for strategic advantage, big data and metrics for managers and, soon, the business of the poor. Please see the course catalog for additional information.

Charles Angelucci

Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor

Charles Angelucci is the Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School from 2015 to…

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Alessandro Bonatti

John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor

Alessandro Bonatti is the John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on (a) the provision of incentives in research-intensive and creative industries, and (b)…

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Mert Demirer

Ford Foundation International Career Development Assistant Professor

Mert Demirer is the Ford Foundation International Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Demirer’s main area of research is industrial organization with a…

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Joseph Doyle

Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management

Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies public economics in the areas of healthcare and child welfare. His healthcare research investigates sources of value…

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Robert Gibbons

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management

Robert Gibbons is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is Professor of Economics in MIT’s Department of Economics. He is also the co-principal…

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Namrata Kala

Associate Professor, Applied Economics

Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and…

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Christopher Knittel

Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability

Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…

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Alexey Makarin

Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management

Alexey Makarin is the Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Alexey is an applied economist with research interests in…

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Ellen Muir

Assistant Professor, Applied Economics

Ellen Muir is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ellen is an economic theorist whose research focuses on studying the behavior of firms with market power. Her work utilizes tools from mechanism design…

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Robert S. Pindyck

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics

Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…

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Roberto Rigobon

Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management

Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Census…

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Tavneet Suri

Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics

Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.Tavneet is an editor at the Review of…

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Ben Vatter

Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor

Benjamin Vatter is the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on competition and optimal policy design, with particular…

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Michael Whinston

Sloan Fellows Professor of Management

Michael D. Whinston is the Sloan Fellows Professor of Management in the Applied Economics Group at MIT Sloan and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department.Whinston was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor of Business Instutions in the…

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Catherine Wolfram

William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…

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Ernst Rudolf Berndt

Louis E. Seley Professor Emeritus in Applied Economics

Ernst Berndt is a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Until January 2011, he was Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement. Berndt’s recent…

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Bengt Holmstrom

Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Bengt Holmstrom is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT, where he also was head of the Economics Department from 2003-2006. He holds a joint appointment with MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Holmstrom is a Fellow of the American…

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Henry Donnan Jacoby

William F. Pounds Professor of Management Emeritus

Henry D. Jacoby is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management, Emeritus in the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and former Co-Director of the M.I.T. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is focused on the integration of…

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Richard Schmalensee

Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus

Richard Schmalensee served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served for 12 years as Director of the…

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Thomas Stoker

Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics, Emeritus

Thomas M. Stoker is the Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics, Emeritus and a Professor of Applied Economics, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Stoker is a leading researcher in economic modeling, econometric…

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Danielle Li

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology

Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…

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