50 faculty and 40 courses in Economics & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Olivier Blanchard, Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 111
- Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics; Department Head h-index 83
- Victor Chernozhukov, Ford International Professor of Economics h-index 78
- Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics h-index 74
- Jeffrey Harris, Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 58
- Glenn Ellison, Gregory K. Palm (1970) Professor of Economics h-index 48
- Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics h-index 40
- Robert Gibbons, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics h-index 40
- Stephen Morris, Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics h-index 37
- Christian Wolf, Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 25
- Muhamet Yildiz, Professor of Economics h-index 17
- Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics h-index 16
- Nikhil Agarwal, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics h-index 7
- Parag Pathak, Class of 1922 Professor of Economics h-index 3
- Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics
Econometrics, causal inference, and program evaluation. His methodological research focuses on econometric methods to estimate causal effects, particularly the effects of public policies, such as labor market, education, and health policy interventions
- Alexander Wolitzky, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics
- Amy Finkelstein, John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics
Public finance and health economics. Her research focuses on market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and on the economics of healthcare delivery. From she served as co-Director of the Public Economics Program at the Nati
- Anna Mikusheva, Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor of Economics
- Arnaud Costinot, Ford Professor of Economics
- Ashesh Rambachan, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor
Primarily in econometrics with a focus on applications of machine learning and AI in economics and causal inference. _I am on leave visiting Stanford's Economics Department and SIEPR for the academic year._
- Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus
- Benjamin Olken, TEPCO Professor of Economics
Es on development economics, with a particular interest in improving the performance of the public sector in developing countries, including social protection programs, taxation, and quality of governance. He also works on environmental challenges in developin
- Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor
- Dave Donaldson, Class of 1949 Professor of Economics
- David Atkin, Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor of Economics
- David H. Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor
- Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics
- Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
- Frank Schilbach, Associate Professor of Economics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
- Ian Ball, Gary Loveman Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics
- Isaiah Andrews, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Economics
- Iván Werning, Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics
- Jacob Moscona, 3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics
- James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics
Es on how taxation affects the economic decisions of households and firms, particularly those involving saving and portfolio behavior. His recent research has analyzed the determinants of retirement saving, the draw-down of assets after households reach retire
- Jerry Hausman, John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics
- Josh Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics
- Michael J. Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
And mass production, between interpretation and analysis in innovation, and between the U.S. and the Franco-Latin approach to work regulation and their impacts on labor market flexibility. These concepts are developed in a number of books and articles includin
- Michael Whinston, Professor of Economics and Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
- Nancy L. Rose, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics
- Nathaniel Hendren, Ford Professor of Economics
- Nina Roussille, Gordon K. Lister and Donald K. Lister Career Development Assistant Professor
- Paul L. Joskow, Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, competition policy, and government regulation of industry. He is a past-president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a distinguished fellow of the Industrial Organi
- Peter Diamond, Institute Professor and Professor of Economics, Emeritus
- Richard Schmalensee, Professor of Economics and Management Emeritus
- Robert M. Townsend, Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics
- Sara Fisher Ellison, Senior Lecturer in Economics
- Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics and Peter de Florez Professor of EECS
- Tobias Salz, Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics
Platforms, digital markets, transportation, and artificial intelligence. My research often combines theory with new observational data sources or experiments.
- Whitney Newey, Ford Professor of Economics, Emeritus
- William C. Wheaton, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Urban Studies
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