Pat Bajari
Chief Economist & VP
Amazon (1969-2025)
PhD: Minnesota, 1998
Empirical Auctions
Industrial Organization
Structural Econometrics
About
Pat Bajari built Amazon's economics team from scratch to 400+ PhD economists, creating the template that every tech company now follows. His empirical methods for studying auctions and contracts are foundational. He passed away in December 2025 at age 55.
Key Work
2021
Machine Learning Methods Economists Should Know About
Annual Review of Economics
Bridge between ML and economics