% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw25064, title = "Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies", author = "Athey, Susan and Luca, Michael", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "25064", year = "2018", month = "September", doi = {10.3386/w25064}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w25064", abstract = {As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies – tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists have accepted positions in the technology sector. In this paper, we explore the skills that PhD economists apply in tech companies, the companies that hire them, the types of problems that economists are currently working on, and the areas of academic research that have emerged in relation to these problems.}, }