Research

Take a look at the latest research from MIT Economics faculty, including published work and newly-released working papers.

Working Papers

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Incentive-Compatible Unemployment Reinsurance for the Euro Area

Karaivanov, Alexander, Benoit Mojon, Luiz Pereira da Silva, Albert Pierres Tejada and Robert M Townsend
October 2025
Macroeconomics

Optimal Policy Rules in HANK

Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies
Alisdair McKay, Christian Wolf
September 2025
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Books

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Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
Health Economics, Public Economics

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What To Do About It

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman
January 2023
Cover of Cooking to Save Your Life with an illustration by Cheyenne Olivier of Abhijit cooking surrounded by others

Cooking to Save Your Life

Abhijit Banerjee
Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
November 2021
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Published Papers

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Quarterly Journal of Economics
Econometrics

Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice

Quarterly Journal of Economics 2025; 140(3): 1801–1855
Isaiah Andrews, Nano Barahona, Matthew Gentzkow, Ashesh Rambachan, Jesse M. Shapiro
August 2025
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Labor Economics

Expertise

Journal of the European Economic Association, 23(4), pp. 1203–1271.
David Autor, Neil Thompson
August 2025
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Economics Department students and faculty

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