Publications

At the IDE, research and data-based evidence underlie all that we do. Explore the cutting-edge academic papers, featured in leading publications around the globe.

Publication Types

Books The New Science of Customer Relationships: Delivering the One-to-One Promise with AI

Dec 2025

Jim Sterne

Research Papers Are Crypto Ecosystems (De)centralizing? A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis

Dec 2025

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Ehsan Valavi | Postdoctoral Associate

Madhav Kumar | Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

This paper proposes a systematic framework for measuring the decentralization of crypto ecosystems over time and compare commonly used decentralization metrics.

Working Papers The Latent Role of Open Models in the AI Economy

Nov 2025

Frank Nagle | Research Scientist

Daniel Yue

The result uncovered in this working paper suggest that closed model dominance reflects powerful drivers beyond model capabilities and price – whether switching costs, brand loyalty, or information frictions – with the economic magnitude of these hidden factors proving far larger than previously recognized, reframing open models as a largely latent, but high-potential, source of value in the AI economy.

Working Papers How fast are algorithms reducing the demands on memory? A survey of progress in space complexity

Nov 2025

Jayson Lynch | Research Scientist, CSAIL

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL

Hayden Rome

Jeffery Li

Chirag Falor

In this paper, scholars present the first broad survey of how algorithmic progress has improved memory usage (space complexity) by analyzing 118 of the most important algorithm problems in computer science, reviewing the 800+ algorithms used to solve them.

Research Papers LLMs in Citation Intent Classification: Progress, Precision, and Reproducibility Challenges

Oct 2025

Ana Trisovic | Research Scientist, CSAIL

Thomas Davenport | Professor, Babson College

Alex Fogelson

Understanding the intent behind scientific citations is critical for advancing scholarly search and knowledge mapping. This paper reflects on the methodological use of large language models (LLMs) for multi-class citation intent classification.

Research Papers Policy Impacts of Statistical Uncertainty and Privacy

Oct 2025

Alessandro Acquisti | T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management and Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan

Ryan Steed
Terrance Liu
Zhiwei Steven Wu

This paper explores differential privacy, an increasingly popular tool for preserving individuals’ privacy by adding statistical uncertainty when sharing sensitive data.

Research Papers The Economics of Privacy at a Crossroads

Alessandro Acquisti | T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management and Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan

This paper provides insights on privacy policies and regulations, the effects of those policies and potential future action to protect consumer data privacy.

Working Papers The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents

Sep 2025

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Benjamin Manning | Ph.D. Candidate

Andrey Fradkin | Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Peyman Shahidi

Gili Rusak