About

Brad Larsen is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  

Brad's primary research field is industrial organization, focusing on incomplete-information bargaining, occupational licensing, online markets, auctions, pricing, and health communication. 

At Olin, Brad teaches competitive industry analysis and strategy from an economics perspective to MBA students. In the past he has taught industrial organization courses at the undergraduate and PhD levels, as well as introductory economics and data science courses for study-abroad programs in Spain and Italy. 

Brad received a PhD in economics from MIT in 2013 and spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at eBay Research Labs. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University from 2014 through 2022. He received a BA in economics and BS in mathematics from Brigham Young University.