Leon Musolff

Leon Musolff is an Assistant Professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy group at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on empirical industrial organization, particularly in the context of digital markets and algorithmic competition.

• Specializes in structural industrial organization and causal inference techniques
• Studies e-commerce platform design, algorithmic pricing, and AI impacts on productivity
• Active researcher in antitrust and digital economy policy

Research Interests: Professor Musolff investigates how digital platforms shape market dynamics through algorithmic design, pricing strategies, and competitive behaviors. His work spans e-commerce auctions, AI-driven productivity analysis, search engine market dominance, and platform self-preferencing.

Recent Publications: His field experiments and structural models analyze collusion detection in public procurement, generative AI's impact on software development, Amazon's Buybox algorithm effects, Google's search market share drivers, and pricing dynamics in algorithmic markets.