Economics
IDEAS Research
Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft’s productivity division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the…
Research Intern – Economics and Computation
The Economics and Computation group has multiple Research Intern positions for the summer of 2026. Research areas include market design, the economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), economics and computation, social learning, applied microeconomics, microeconomic theory,…
Magentic Marketplace
Magentic Marketplace is an open-source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale. It provides a foundation for studying these markets and guiding them toward outcomes that benefit everyone.
Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations
Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs–that’s part…
