Francesco Gabriele Economics

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I am a PhD candidate in Economics at University of Southern California. My research interests focus on Empirical Industrial Organization with an emphasis on Digital Economics and Quantitative Marketing. My research agenda also covers topics of behavioral and experimental economics, discrete-continuous choice models, field experiment, causal inference and machine learning.

In my JMP I study the welfare effects of behavior-based price discrimination in digital markets. Combining large scale RCT data, structural demand model and counterfactual analysis via machine learning, I show that personalized discounts increases e-commerce profit by 24% and consumer surplus by 4%. Additionally, I find that behavior-based price discrimination complements personalized discounts by generating an additional 11% gain in profits, besides mainly benefiting loyal customers.


My advisors are Paulina Oliva, Robert Metcalfe, Davide Proserpio and Giorgio Coricelli.


I will be on the academic job market during the 2024-25 academic year.


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