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

For perspective students: please submit your PhD applications on the Booth website, email applications will not be considered.

Working Papers

"Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data"

with Ilya Morozov and Stephan Seiler

"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

"An Equilibrium Model of Rollover Lotteries"

with Lorenzo Magnolfi and Lones Smith

"When Cryptomining Comes to Town: High Electricity-Use Spillovers to the Local Economy"

with Matteo Benetton and Adair Morse

Publications

"Online Search and Optimal Product Rankings: An Empirical Framework"

with Greg Lewis, Sida Peng and Will Wang, Marketing Science, 2024, vol.43.

"Investors’ Beliefs and Cryptocurrency Prices"

with Matteo Benetton, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2024, vol.14, Editor's Choice.

"An Instrumental Variable Approach to Dynamic Models"

with Steven Berry, The Review of Economic Studies, 2023, vol.90.

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

Quantitative Economics, 2022, vol.13. [Matlab code]

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

with Kristin Donnelly and Ellen Evers, Journal of Marketing Research, 2022, vol.59.

"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.