Alessandro Bonatti is the John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Alessandro is an applied microeconomic theorist working at the intersection of game theory and industrial organization. His research studies the dynamics of incentives in organizations, nonlinear and dynamic pricing strategies, and the economics of digital markets. His most recent work focuses on markets for data, and on the optimal use of data for pricing and personalized advertising by platforms and firms. He also researches the effects of data on user privacy, examining the tradeoffs between privacy concerns and the benefits associated with firms having a more precise understanding of consumer preferences.
Alessandro currently serves as coeditor for the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and as associate editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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DP20226 The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning and Optimal Pricing
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- Artificial Intelligence
VoxEU Column
The economics of social data
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- Competition Policy 
- Productivity and Innovation
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The Wild West of information markets: What we need to know before law and order can rule
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- Frontiers of economic research