Daron Acemoglu

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Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

50 Memorial Dr., E52-380b
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
50 Memorial Dr., E52-380b
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
50 Memorial Dr., E52-380b
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
50 Memorial Dr., E52-380b
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347

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daron@mit.edu

Issues: Artificial Intelligence, Media and Content, Net Neutrality, Search and Advertising, Open Source, Standards, Patents, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Innovation and Economic Growth, Interoperability, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing and Privacy and Security

About Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He received his B.A. degree from the University of York, UK and his M.Sc. degree in mathematical economics and econometrics and then his Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the London School of Economics. He was a lecturer in economics at the LSE from 1992-1993. Acemoglu became a member of the M.I.T. faculty in 1993. He was promoted to full professor in 2000. He is a member of the Economic Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Center for Economic Performance, and Centre for Economic Policy Research.

His principal interests are political economy, economic development, economic growth, technology, income and wage inequality, human capital and training, and labour economics. His most recent works concentrate on the role of institutions in economic development and political economy.

Daron Acemoglu is also the co-editor of Econometrica, Review of Economics and Statistics, and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth, and an editorial committee board member of the Annual Review of Economics.

Degree(s):
B.A., University of York, 1989
MSc., London School of Economics, 1990
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1992

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Research Articles from this Academic	Co-Authors	Year
Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization This paper examines the joint roles that new technologies, and their standardization, play in economic growth.	Gino Gancia and Fabrizio Zilibotti	2012
Environment and Directed Technical Change, The This paper asks how policies encouraging clean machines to protect the environment will affect long-term growth.	Philippe Aghion et al	2009
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth The authors use a model to suggest which sorts of industrial subsidies encourage growth.	Ufuk Akcigit et al	2011
Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition, and Innovation This paper shows that granting stronger intellectual property rights to technology leaders can increase innovation.	Ufuk Akcigit	2012
Managing Innovation in a Crowd Crowdsourcing entails calling on the public to work on tasks. Ideally, low-skill workers try the task first, with high-skill workers trying the task only when low-skill workers fail. Workers self-select into this hierarchy if rewards increases each time a worker fails to complete a task.	Mohamed Mostagir and Asuman Ozdaglar	2014
Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry This paper looks at how the number of customers for a product affects firms’ research efforts.	Joshua Linn	2004
Technical Change, Inequality and Labor Market This paper looks at how technology affects work and wages.		2002
Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm This paper looks at how the kind of information used by a business affects its organization.	Philippe Aghion et al	2007
Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence This paper looks at how technology-focused firms relate to other firms.	Philippe Aghion et al	2004

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