Eduard Talamàs
Associate Professor, IESE Business School
Research Affiliate, CEPR (Organizational Economics Program)
Research Fellow, HKU Centre for AI, Management and Organizations
Research Fellow, Barcelona School of Economics
Selected Best-40-Under-40 MBA Professor by P&Q
eduard.talamas at gmail.com
Upcoming Research Workshops in Barcelona:
I am organizing the first edition of “The Economics of Transformative AI” at the Barcelona Summer Forum, June 17, 2026.
Keynote: Luis Garicano (LSE). Confirmed speakers: Kevin Bryan (Toronto) and Lindsey Raymond (Microsoft).
I am also the co-organizer of the "Networks" workshop at the Barcelona Summer Forum, June 4-5, 2026.
Working Papers
The Value of Organizational Learning Technologies
with Martin Beraja
Upcoming presentations: NYU Abu Dhabi (Feb 17), San Francisco Fed (Feb 24), UC Irvine (Feb 27), CREI-UPF (March 23), Rice (March 31).
The Turing Valley: How AI Capabilities Shape Labor Income
with Enrique Ide — Under revision at Journal of Human Capital.
Special Issue: AI and Human Capital.
Editors: Isaac Ehrlich and Pascual Restrepo.
The Human-Machine Knowledge Spiral
with Ronnie Chatterji and Daniel Rock — in preparation for Organization Science.
Crossroads: Tacit Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence: Reimagining Nonaka’s Legacy
Editors: Lamar Pierce, Georg von Krogh and Patrick Reinmoeller.
with Andrea Galeotti, Ben Golub, Sanjeev Goyal and Omer Tamuz.
R&R at Journal of Political Economy
Editor: John Asker.
Published Papers
The Impact of AI on Global Knowledge Work
with Enrique Ide. Journal of Monetary Economics 2026
Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference Series on Public Policy.
Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
with Enrique Ide. Journal of Political Economy 2025
Video: Discussion with IESE's Dean October 2025
Video: Presentation at Stanford Digital Economy Lab March 2025
Video: Discussion with Markus Brunnermeier January 2025
Bargaining foundations for price taking in matching markets
with Matt Elliott International Economic Review 2025
Free and perfectly safe but only partially effective vaccines can harm everyone
with Rakesh Vohra
Games and Economic Behavior 2020
Price dispersion in stationary networked markets
Games and Economic Behavior 2019
Fair stable sets of simple games
Games and Economic Behavior 2018 [Special issue in honor of Lloyd Shapley]
Book Chapters
Transformative AI and the firm
with Ronnie Chatterji and Daniel Rock
NBER Volume "Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda"
Editors: Ajay Agrawal, Erik Brynjolfsson, Anton Korinek.
To be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2026.
Investment in matching markets
with Matt Elliott
Cambridge University Press, 2023
Online and Matching-Based Market Design
Editors: Federico Echenique, Nicole Immorlica, Vijay V. Vazirani.
Book Review
"The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence" by Joshua Gans, MIT Press, 2025.
Economic Record, 2026
Older Working Papers