
Bio
Brad Larsen joined the Department of Economics at Stanford University in 2014. Prior to this, he obtained a BA in Economics and BS in Mathematics from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Economics from MIT, and spent one year as postdoctoral researcher at eBay Research. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and an Affiliated Faculty of the The Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He is currently a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
His primary area of research is Industrial Organization, with specific emphasis on bargaining and occupational licensing. His recent research projects study large datasets of alternating-offer-negotiation settings to analyze behavioral patterns and efficiency in bargaining. He also studies the effects of occupational licensing regulations on market outcomes such as prices, competition, and the distribution of service quality. Other recent projects study auctions, consumer search, digital copyright law and grey-market activity, changes in US wage inequality due to increased import competition with China, the effects of laws legitimizing arbitrage (parallel importation) across international markets, and applied econometric methods. His latest publications and working papers can be found at his website.
2021-22 Courses
- Industrial Organization IIA
ECON 258 (Win) - Industrial Organization Workshop
ECON 355 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Pasta, Soccer, and Opera: An Intro to Applied Micro and Data Analysis
ECON 41 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Directed Reading
ECON 139D (Aut) - Directed Reading
ECON 239D (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Thesis Research
ECON 199D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Practical Training
ECON 299 (Aut, Sum)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- Industrial Organization Workshop
ECON 355 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2019-20 Courses
- Industrial Organization Workshop
ECON 355 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2018-19 Courses
- Industrial Organization Workshop
ECON 355 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Pirates, Soccer, and Dons: A Sampler of Economics and Data Science in Spain
OSPMADRD 40 (Win)
- Industrial Organization Workshop
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Sharon Shiao -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Shumpei Goke, Carol Hengheng Lu -
Orals Evaluator
Zeyu Wang
All Publications
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Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2020; 110 (12): 3748–85
View details for DOI 10.1257/aer.20190460
View details for Web of Science ID 000620672400002
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The Efficiency of Real-World Bargaining: Evidence from Wholesale Used-Auto Auctions
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2020; Forthcoming
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdaa007
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Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2020; 135 (3): 1319-1361
View details for DOI 10.1093/qje/qjaa003
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IV Quantile Regression for Group-Level Treatments, With an Application to the Distributional Effects of Trade
ECONOMETRICA
2016; 84 (2): 809-833
View details for DOI 10.3982/ECTA12121
View details for Web of Science ID 000373024100009
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Scalable Optimal Online Auctions
MARKETING SCIENCE
2021; 40 (4): 593-618
View details for DOI 10.1287/mksc.2021.1283
View details for Web of Science ID 000684376800001
- Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing National Bureau of Economic Research. 2020 ; NBER Working Paper (26601):
- Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 2020; Forthcoming
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The bidder exclusion effect
RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2019; 50 (1): 93–120
View details for DOI 10.1111/1756-2171.12263
View details for Web of Science ID 000458356600004
- Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search National Bureau of Economic Research. 2019 ; NBER Working Paper (22038):
- A Mechanism Design Approach to Identification and Estimation National Bureau of Economic Research. 2018 ; NBER Working Paper (24837):
- The Simple Empirics of Optimal Online Auctions National Bureau of Economic Research. 2018 ; NBER Working Paper (24698):
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Ascending auctions with bidder asymmetries
QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
2017; 8 (1): 181-200
View details for DOI 10.3982/QE474
View details for Web of Science ID 000399323900006
- Identification in Ascending Auctions, with an Application to Digital Rights Management National Bureau of Economic Research. 2017 ; NBER Working Paper (23659):
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Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcome
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
2016; 8 (4): 195-229
View details for DOI 10.1257/mic.20150020
View details for Web of Science ID 000387045200008
- Occupational Licensing and Quality: Distributional and Heterogeneous Effects in the Teaching Profession https://web.stanford.edu/~bjlarsen/Larsen%20(2015)%20Occupational%20licensing%20and%20quality.pdf. 2015
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A test of the extreme value type I assumption in the bus engine replacement model
ECONOMICS LETTERS
2012; 116 (2): 213–16
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.02.031
View details for Web of Science ID 000306616900022
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Partially Adaptive Econometric Methods For Regression and Classification
COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS
2010; 36 (2): 153–69
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10614-010-9226-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000279707600004