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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The Diminishing Returns to Human Recruiting in Online Labor Markets

May, 2026

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Emma Wiles | IDE Digital Fellow and Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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.

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

Working Papers The Fiscal Frontier: Projecting AI’s long-term impact on the US fiscal outlook

Sep 2025

Eric So | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Benjamin H. Harris

Neil Mehrotra