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Andrey Fradkin

Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Professor Fradkin is an economist who studies digitization and search and matching markets.

He’s written papers on topics such as the design of Airbnb’s search and matching algorithm, reputation systems, online job search, and 401(k) contribution choices by workers. Before joining Boston University, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT. His research has been published in both economics journals (American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics) and computer science conferences (ACM-EC). He’s provided expert input about the digital economy at the President’s Council on Science and Technology and the Federal Trade Commission. He worked as a data scientist at Airbnb while completing a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University.

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Research Papers The Emerging Market for Intelligence: How Firms Buy and Sell AI

August 28, 2026

  • Andrey Fradkin | Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

    • Mert Demirer

    Nadav Tadelis

    Published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, this paper describes the emerging business-to-business market for large language model (LLM) inference and document key empirical patterns in its supply, pricing, and dynamics, using data from OpenRouter.