Dr. Leon Musolff

Assistant Professor

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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.

Research Interests

Courses

BEPP6120 - Microeconomics for Managers

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
Application Checklist
  • Academic Transcripts
  • Letters of Recommendation (2-3)
  • Resume/CV
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Essays
Specialization Notes

Wharton Doctoral programs cover fields like Finance, Marketing, Management, and Operations, Information and Decisions.