David Autor on AI, Expertise, and the Future of Work
David Autor (MIT) will deliver the 2025 Munich Lecture in Economics and will be honored as this year’s Distinguished CES Fellow. His lecture explores how advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping human expertise and transforming labor markets. He also outlines new opportunities emerging for policy and society. The event is open to the public and will take place at LMU Munich.
Workshop on Skills, Tasks and Technologies in the AI Era
Mar Reguant
Mar Reguant’s research lies at the intersection of industrial organization and energy and environmental economics, with a particular focus on electricity markets and climate policy. She has published extensively in top economics journals, contributing to our understanding of market design, emissions regulation, and the impact of renewable power on energy systems. In her research, she uses a wide variety of tools, such as applied theory models, regression analysis, and structural models.
During her visit, Ms. Reguant plans to work on her research examining how to adapt electricity markets to growing pressures, looking at mechanisms to reduce the welfare losses from blackouts, and examining how to redesign secondary electricity markets.
Benjamin W. Cowan
Benjamin Cowan’s current agenda centers on the societal impacts of the “Work-from-Home Revolution” – the dramatic rise in remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic.
His research spans the areas of health, labor and education. During his visit to CESifo, he plans to extend his home-office research by comparing how remote work influences social interactions, loneliness, and mental health in the U.S. and Europe.
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