Select Publications and Working Papers
"A Theory of the Effects of Privacy."
Bonatti, Alessandro, Yunhao Huang, and J. Miguel Villas-Boas. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants."
Demirer, Mert and Ömer Karaduman. Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming. Download Preprint.
"From Coase to Culture: Visible Hands Build Equilibria."
Gibbons, Robert. Economica. Forthcoming.
"Implications of Policy-Driven Transmission Expansion on Costs, Emissions, and Reliability in the United States."
Senga, Juan Ramon L., Audun Botterud, John E. Parsons, S. Drew Story, and Christopher R. Knittel. Nature Energy. Forthcoming.
"The Effects of Generative AI on High-Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers."
Cui, Kevin Zheyuan, Mert Demirer, Sonia Jaffe, Leon Musolff, Sida Peng, and Tobias Salz. Management Science. Forthcoming. Download Preprint.
"Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement."
Baron, E. Jason, Joseph J. Doyle, Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Forthcoming.
"Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?"
Clausing, Kimberly A., Christopher R. Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Forthcoming.
"Information Design with Elicitation and Strategic Coordination."
Bonatti, Alessandro, Munther A. Dahleh, and Thibaut Horel, Working Paper. November 2025.
Keywords: Information Design, Mechanism Design, Private Information, Data Markets, Algorithmic Pricing, Digital Platforms
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal Vol. 135, No. 672 (2025): 2377-2401. NBER Working Paper.
"The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women’s Employment."
Kala, Namrata and Madeline McKelway, Working Paper. October 2025.
"Measuring by Executive Order."
Topic: Economics
Cavallo, Alberto and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7322-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2025. SSRN.
"Bidding with Budgets: Data-Driven Bid Algorithms in Digital Advertising."
Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu. International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 102, (2025): 103172.
"The Global Effects of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms."
Clausing, Kimberly A., Jonathan M. Colmer, Allan Hsiao, and Catherine Wolfram, Working Paper. September 2025. NBER Working Paper No. 33723.
Keywords: Tax law and policy, Carbon border adjustment mechanisms, Importing, Exporting, Regulation, Environmental economy
"Trade Sanctions."
Topic: Economics
Egorov, Konstantin, Vasily Korovkin, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7331-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Supply Chain, International Trade, Russia-Ukraine War, Geoeconomics, Sanctions, Trade Sanctions, Export Controls
"Timing Sustainable Shareholder Proposals in Real Asset Investments."
van der Kroft, Bram, Juan Palacios, Roberto Rigobon, and Siqi Zheng, Working Paper. August 2025. SSRN.
Keywords: Corporate governance, Physical depreciation, Real assets, Socially responsible investing, ESG, CSR, Sustainable finance
"A Theory of Price Caps on Non-Renewable Resources."
Johnson, Simon, Lukasz Rachel, and Catherine Wolfram, Working Paper. August 2025. NBER Working Paper No. 31347.
"Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado."
Cooper, Ryan, Joseph J. Doyle, and Andrés P. Hojman. American Economic Review Vol. 115, No. 7 (2025): 2306-2342. NBER Working Paper 30974.
"Fisher–Schultz Lecture: Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments, With an Application to Immunization in India."
Chernozhukov, Victor, Mert Demirer, Esther Duflo, Iván Fernández-Val. Econometrica Vol. 93, No. 4 (2025): 1121-1164.
"How do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?"
Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu. The Review of Economic Studies Vol. 92, No. 4 (2025): 2330-2358. Extended Abstract (EC '23).
"The Democratic Paradox in Large Language Models' Underestimation of Press Freedom."
Loaiza, Isabella, Roberto Vestrelli, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7323-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Large Language Models, Press Freedom, Differential Misalignment, Home Bias, Media Trust