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Alex Smolin

I am a Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, hold a Chair at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute, and serve on the Editorial Board of The Review of Economic Studies. My research studies how information and incentives should be designed in strategic environments, with current work on algorithmic advice, AI alignment, and the pricing of large language models.

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Working papers

  1. Robust Trust

    with Piotr Dworczak

    Quarterly Journal of Economics · Revision requested · March 2026

  2. Menu Pricing of Large Language Models

    with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti

    March 2026

  3. Calibrated Mechanism Design

    with Laura Doval

    February 2026

  4. Buyer-Optimal Algorithmic Recommendations

    with Shota Ichihashi

    Review of Economic Studies · Revision requested · February 2025

Publications

  1. Information Design in Smooth Games

    with Takuro Yamashita

    Theoretical Economics · Accepted · 2026

  2. Data Provision to an Informed Seller

    with Shota Ichihashi

    Games and Economic Behavior · 153, 131–144 · 2025

  3. Persuasion and Welfare

    with Laura Doval

    Journal of Political Economy · 132(7), 2451–2487 · 2024

  4. Optimal Technology Design

    with Daniel Garrett, George Georgiadis, and Balázs Szentes

    Journal of Economic Theory · 209, 105621 · 2023

  5. Disclosure and Pricing of Attributes

    RAND Journal of Economics · 54(4), 570–597 · 2023

  6. Dynamic Evaluation Design

    American Economic Journal: Microeconomics · 13(4), 300–331 · 2021

  7. Cream Skimming and Information Design in Matching Markets

    with Gleb Romanyuk

    American Economic Journal: Microeconomics · 11(2), 250–276 · 2019

  8. Dynamic Communication with Biased Senders

    with Chiara Margaria

    Games and Economic Behavior · 110, 330–339 · 2018

  9. The Design and Price of Information

    with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti

    American Economic Review · 108(1), 1–48 · 2018

Other work

  1. Incentive-Based Alignment Workshop

    Co-organized with Nicole Immorlica, Eden Saig, and Inbal Talgam-Cohen

    EC ’26 · Rome · 6 July 2026

  2. The Welfare Impact of Recommendation Algorithms

    with Laura Doval

    Invited article · ACM SIGecom Exchanges · 22(2), 56–65 · 2025

  3. The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing

    with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti

    Conference proceedings · 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation · p. 786 · 2025

  4. Buyer-Optimal Algorithmic Recommendations

    with Shota Ichihashi

    Conference proceedings · 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation · p. 667 · 2025

  5. Information Design in Concave Games

    with Takuro Yamashita

    Conference proceedings · 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation · p. 870 · 2022

  6. The Optimality of Upgrade Pricing

    with Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, and Andreas Haupt

    Conference proceedings · 17th Conference on Web and Internet Economics · 41–58 · 2021

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