Microeconomics

Microeconomics – Data and Applied Science

Economics is a powerful framework to assess the welfare implications of different mechanisms and market structures. Bring these insights to life require leveraging data to estimate key parameters that matter for policy. Economists at Microsoft work jointly with data sciences, applied scientists and developers to help inform internal decisions at Microsoft leveraging the vast spectrum of Microsoft data. In doing so, there are often broader insights that inform technology policy.

Lars Roemheld (Senior Director of Data Science, Office of the Chief Economist) He leads data science in Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Economist. He focuses on applying science, for example in the form of dynamic pricing of AI infrastructure or experimentation for Copilot measurements.

Meggie Debnath (Data Scientist, Office of the Chief Economist) 2023 MEng in Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Her previous work has focused on building and deploying production ML models and analyzing the impacts of their intervention. Her research interests include algorithmic decision-making and causal inference.