Professor Dr. Leon Musolff

Biography

Leon Musolff is an assistant professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. His research specializes in empirical industrial organization, focusing on empirical analysis of e-commerce platforms utilizing structural industrial organization tools and causal inference techniques in applied microeconomics. He examines how online platforms design marketplaces, the implications for algorithmic competition among merchants, the detection of collusive bidding rings, and the trade-offs involved in providing entry incentives for competitively priced products, as well as the impact of search recommendation algorithms. His recent work explores the effects of generative artificial intelligence on markets, cloud computing, and search engines. Before joining Wharton, Professor Musolff completed his graduate work at Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Economics & Computation group at Microsoft Research New England.

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