Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
The Internet and the News Media
Bio: Susan Athey is Economics of Technology Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. Prior to joining Stanford, she held professorships at Harvard and MIT. Her honors include being the first female recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal which is given by the American Economic Association to the American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Elaine Bennett research award, which is given every other year to an outstanding young woman in any field of economics. She serves as Chief Economist for Microsoft. Her research focuses on the economics of the internet, marketplace design, auction theory, the statistical analysis of auction data, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She has focused on several applications, including internet search, online advertising, the news media, and virtual currency.