Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. A best-selling author, he writes and speaks to global audiences about these topics.

Recent Research

1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Liu, Meng, Westerman, George, “Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?,” April 2022.

2. Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe (2022) “How Many Americans Work Remotely?,” Stanford Digital Economy Lab Working Paper, March 22.

3. Benzell, Seth and Brynjolfsson, Erik, “The Innovation-Complexity Trade-off: How Bottlenecks Create Superstars and Constrain Growth,” January 2022.

4. Benzell, Seth, Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Saint-Jacques, Guillaume, “Digital Abundance Meets Scarce Architects: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth,” January 2022.

5. Brynjolfsson, Erik, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence,” Forthcoming in Dædalus, Spring, 2022.

6. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Meng Liu, Jason Dowlatabadi, “Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis,” Management Science, August 2021.

7. Brynjolfsson, Erik. Wang Jin, and Kristina McElheran. “The Power of Prediction: Predictive Analytics, Workplace Complements, and Business Performance,” June 2021.

8. Bana, Sarah H., Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin, Sebastian Steffen, and Xiupeng Wang, “Cybersecurity Hiring in Response to Data Breaches,” SSRN, March 2021.

9. John (Jianqiu) Bai, Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin, Sebastian Steffen, and Chi Wan, “Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance,” NBER, March 2021.

10. Prasanna Tambe, Lorin Hitt, Daniel Rock & Erik Brynjolfsson, December 2020, “Digital Capital and Superstar Firms” NBER Working Paper, DOI 10.3386/w28285, Cambridge, MA.

11. Zolas, N., Kroff, Z., Brynjolfsson, E., McElheran, K., Beede, D., Buffington, C., Goldschlag, N., Foster, L. & Dinlersoz, E., December 2020, “Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey”, NBER working paper, DOI 10.3386/w28290 Cambridge, MA

12. Brynjolfsson, Erik, John Horton, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, Garima Sharma and Hong Yi Tu Ye (2020) "COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data", NBER working paper, May.

13. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin J. Fox. "Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption." January 10, 2020. Forthcomimg: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110 (May 2020). SSRN abstract 3517017. 

14. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Xiang Hui and Meng Liu. "Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform." Management Science, 65(12): 5449-60. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3388.

15. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Avinash Collis. "How Should We Measure the Digital Economy?" Harvard Business Review, 97(6): 140-48. doi: 10.1257/aer.20170491

16. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen. "What Drives Differences in Management Practices?" American Economic Review, 109(5): 1648-83. doi: 10.1257/aer.20170491

17. Frank, Morgan, David Autor, James. E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman et al. "Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(14): 6531-39. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1900949116. April 2, 2019. 

18. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin J. Fox. "GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy." NBER Working Paper No. 25695. Issued March 2019. SSRN abstract 3356697.

19. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers. "Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(15): 7250-55. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1815663116. March 26, 2019. SSRN abstract 3163559.

20. Benzell, Seth and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth." NBER Working Paper No. 25585, issued February 2019.