Faculty
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) on the impact of technological advances on firms’ online advertising and pricing strategies.
Bonatti holds an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD in economics from Yale University.
Featured Publication
"The Design and Price of Information."Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti and Alex Smolin. American Economic Review Vol. 108, No. 1 (2018): 1-48. D-Space.
Featured Publication
"The Politics of Compromise."Bonatti, Alessandro, and Heikki Rantakari. American Economic Review Vol. 106, No. 2 (2016): 229-259. D-Space.
Bonatti, Alessandro. In The Economics of Privacy, edited by Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming. NBER Preprint.
Bonatti, Alessandro, Munther Dahleh, Thibaut Horel, and Amir Nouripour. Journal of Economic Theory Vol. 216, (2024): 105779. arXiv Preprint.
Heidhues, Paul, Alessandro Bonatti, L. Elisa Celis, Gregory S. Crawford, David Dinielli, Michael Luca, Tobias Salz, Monika Schnitzer, Fiona M. Scott Morton, Katja Seim, Michael Sinkinson, and Jidong Zhou. Yale Journal on Regulation Vol. 40, No. 3 (2023): 915-972. SSRN Preprint.
Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nick Wu. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, New York, NY: July 2023. arXiv Preprint.
Researchers, including MIT Sloan's Alessandro Bonatti, have designed what they believe is an improved, quantitative way for big-data providers to price the information they sell to informed customers.
Research measures “citation penalty” for authors of recanted work
Alessandro Bonatti discusses the use of game theory in professional football in this podcast about Tom Brady and his come-from-behind victories.
