Giovanni Compiani

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

My research primarily focuses on industrial organization and quantitative marketing, with an emphasis on applying frontier econometric methods to analyze markets and inform policy.

You can download my CV here.

Email: Giovanni.Compiani@chicagobooth.edu, gio1compiani@gmail.com

Working Papers

"An Instrumental Variable Approach to Dynamic Models"

with Steven Berry

Forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies

"Time Periods Feel Longer When They Span More Category Boundaries: Evidence From the Lab and the Field"

with Kristin Donnelly and Ellen Evers

Forthcoming at Journal of Marketing Research

"Online Search and Product Rankings: A Double Index Approach"

with Greg Lewis, Sida Peng and Will Wang

Revision Requested at Marketing Science

"A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search"

with Jason Abaluck and Fan Zhang

Revision Requested at The Journal of Political Economy

"Boundaries of Differentiated Product Markets and Retailer Pricing"

with Adam Smith

"Investors’ Beliefs and Cryptocurrency Prices"

with Matteo Benetton

"When cryptomining comes to town: High electricity-use spillovers to the local economy"

with Matteo Benetton and Adair Morse

Publications

"Market Counterfactuals and the Specification of Multi-Product Demand: A Nonparametric Approach"

Quantitative Economics, 2022, vol.13.

Matlab code

"Empirical Models of Industry Dynamics with Endogenous Market Structure"

with Steven Berry, Annual Review of Economics, 2021, vol. 13.

"Common Values, Unobserved Heterogeneity, and Endogenous Entry in U.S. Offshore Oil Lease Auctions"

with Philip Haile and Marcelo Sant’Anna, The Journal of Political Economy, 2020, vol. 128.

"Using Mixtures in Econometric Models: a Brief Review and Some New Results"

with Yuichi Kitamura, The Econometrics Journal, 2016, vol. 19.