Working Papers

As IDE scholars' projects progress, they share early-stage research through working papers that offer insights into their findings and methodology.

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Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance

Mar, 2025

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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

Working Papers Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?

Jan 2020

David Rand

Associate Professor

Ziv Epstein

MIT Media Lab

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Multi-Sided Platform Strategy, Taxation, and Regulation: A Quantitative Model and Application to Facebook

Oct 2019

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Avinash Collis | Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Working Papers Ordinal Tax To Sustain a Digital Economy

Aug 2019

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Nate Dwyer

MIT Sloan

Sandro Claudio Lera

MIT Sloan

Working Papers The Paradox of Openness: Exposure vs. Efficiency of APIs

Aug 2019

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Guillermo Lagarda

Inter-American Development Bank

Jonathan Hersh

Chapman University, Argyros School of Business

Marshall Van Alsytne

Boston University, Questrom School of Business

Working Papers Identifying the Multiple Skills in Skill-Biased Technical Change

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Frank MacCrory

Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business

Working Papers The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Targeting, Data and Externalities in Online News

Jun 2019

Working Papers Takeovers and Endogenous Labor Reallocation

Apr 2019

Prasanna Tambe

Ashwini K. Agrawal

Working Papers GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy

Mar 2019

Avinash Collis | Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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