I am an economist and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft. My recent research has focused on the economics of cloud computing, the use of Large Language Models for conducting market research, and developing new methods and software for demand estimation.

Email: jamesbrand@microsoft.com, jamesbrandecon@gmail.com.

While at Microsoft, I’ve been able to work on internal and external research projects with fantastic PhD interns:

• Andres Mena (Brown Econ PhD)

• Avner Kreps (Northwestern Econ PhD student),

• Rebekah Dix (Stanford Econ AP, after Post-docs),

• Chinmay Lohani (On the market! Penn Econ PhD student)

• Yihao Yuan (UCLA Anderson AP).

We often have openings for summer interns, so feel free to reach out if you’d like to work together.