Biography
Julia M. Schmidt is a PhD candidate in economics at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. She studies how artificial intelligence, data and compute transform firm productivity, firm dynamics and emissions, combining macroeconomic models with firm-level data. Before her PhD, she worked as an economist and data scientist at the OECD, in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate and the Statistics and Data Directorate. There she worked on the measurement of data- and AI-intensive firms and digital skills, including the development of the OECD AI Index.
