JACOB LARIVIERE

I am the Chief Economist for AWS and a Director of Economics and Science at Amazon. I work with a talented team to use data, economics and science to build new technologies and new policies that help AWS customers and make a healthy business.

My research background is in Industrial Organization, Environmental & Public Economics, and Behavioral Economics though I've also produced research in Operations Research and Optimal Control. I use applied theory to inform microeconometric, experimental and machine learning empirical techniques. I graduated from UC San Diego with a PhD in Economics and UC Berkeley with a BA in Economics. Recently I’ve been doing research on cloud computing and two-sided markets characterized by externalities. This site contains links to my academic research, information about my classes for UW students and also a link to my CV.

I am an affiliate faculty in the Economics Department at University of Washington and adjunct professor of Economics at University of Tennessee, where I am also a Fellow for Energy and Environmental Policy at the Baker Center for Public Policy. I was recently a co-editor for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Previously I was at Microsoft in the Office of the Chief Economist.

contact: jlariv-at-amazon-dot-com or jlarivi1-at-uw-dot-edu