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)

• Avner Kreps (Northwestern),

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

• Chinmay Lohani (On the market!)

• Yihao Yuan (UCLA Anderson).

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