Eduard
Talamàs

Assistant Professor of Economics

• Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
• M.Sc. in Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
• B.A. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Eduard Talamàs is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research focuses on the economic effects of AI, organizational economics, bargaining and networked markets.

Assistant Professor Talamàs earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2017, where he was mentored by Ben Golub. Following his doctorate, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Rakesh Vohra.

In 2022, he was recognized as one of Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors, highlighting his impact in both economics research and MBA teaching.

Areas of interest.

• Economics
• Social and economic networks
• Investment and bargaining in markets

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E., VOHRA, R. (2020). Free and perfectly safe but only partially effective vaccines can harm everyone. Games and Economic Behavior, 122, 277 - 289. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2020.05.001. TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E. (2019). Price Dispersion In Stationary Networked Markets. Games and Economic Behavior, 115 (1), 247 - 264. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2019.03.005. TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E. (2018). Fair Stable Sets of Simple Games. Games and Economic Behavior, 108 (1), 574 - 584. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2017.08.004.

Working Papers

IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2025). The Impact of AI on Global Knowledge Work. IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2025). Artificial intelligence in the knowledge economy. IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2024). The Turing Valley. How AI capabilities shape labor income.

Proceedings

IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2024). Artificial intelligence in the knowledge economy. EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (pp. 834-836). ACM.

Cases

IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2025). Norway discovers oil. IESE, ECON-436-E. IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2024). Plan Colombia. The Unintended Consequences of Drug Enforcement. IESE, ECON-433-E. TALAMÀS, E. (2023). Trump, Powell y la cuenta corriente de Estados Unidos. IESE, ECON-432.

Outputs in other media

TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E. (2020). The Great Shutdown: Challenges And Opportunities. Forbes. TALAMAS, E. (2020). ¿Qué podemos perder? Compensación de riesgos en una pandemia. IESEconomics. TALAMAS, E. (2020). What do we have to lose? Risk compensation during a pandemic. IESEconomics.