Mert Demirer

Associate Professor of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

I am an Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan Applied Economics Group and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining MIT Sloan, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. I received my PhD in economics from MIT in 2020.

I work in the field of empirical industrial organization. My research focuses on firm productivity, use of digital technologies by firms, antitrust, and productivity effects of generative AI. You can find my CV here.

Working Papers

Published and Accepted Papers

Work in Progress

  • How On-Demand Inputs Change Firm Production and Business Dynamism: The Case of Cloud Computing

    with James Brand and Rebekah Dix

  • Datacenter Entry and Congestion in the US Electricity Markets

    with El Hadi Caoui, Andrew Stack and Sophie Calder-Wang

  • Federated Learning and Privacy Protection

    with Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti and Vod Vilfort

Other Writing/Short Papers

Dormant Projects