Faculty
Alessandro Bonatti is the John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Professor Bonatti is an applied microeconomic theorist working at the intersection of game theory and industrial organization. His research studies the dynamics of incentives in organizations, non-linear 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 trade-offs between privacy concerns and the benefits associated with firms having a more precise understanding of consumer preferences.
Professor Bonatti currently serves as an Editor for the RAND Journal of Economics, and as an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
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.
Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu. The Review of Economic Studies. Forthcoming.
Bonatti, Alessandro. In The Economics of Privacy, edited by Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming. NBER Preprint.
Bergemann, Dirk and Alessandro Bonatti. American Economic Review Vol. 114, No. 8 (2024): 2553-2595.
Bonatti, Alessandro, Munther Dahleh, Thibaut Horel, and Amir Nouripour. Journal of Economic Theory Vol. 216, (2024): 105779. 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.
