Michael Schwarz
Corporate VP & Chief Economist
Microsoft
PhD: Stanford GSB, 2000
Auction Design
Cloud Economics
Market Design
About
Michael Schwarz leads Microsoft's Office of the Chief Economist. He was previously Chief Economist at Google Cloud and Head of Economics Research at Yahoo. With Ostrovsky, he designed the GSP auctions that power internet advertising.
Key Work
2007
Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction
AER
The paper behind $100B+ in ad revenue