I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Northeastern University. Empirical economist specializing in industrial organization and asset pricing, with over four years of industry experience and three years of university research experience.
Research Field
Industrial Organization
Publication
Kwoka, John, and Shabanpour, Muhammad 2025. "Praying for Inflation”: How Market Concentration Facilitates Inflationary Pressures. Competition Policy International, Antitrust Chronicle. https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/praying-for-inflation-how-market-concentration-facilitates-inflationary-pressures/ .
Shoeibi, Mehrdad; Shabanpour, Muhammad; Karwowski, Waldemar, and Yousefi, Niloofar 2027. A Decision-Support Audit Protocol for Supervision Drift in Proxy-Labeled Credit-Risk Prediction. Proceedings of the 60th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Working Papers
Sale Pricing and Demand Dynamics. [JMP]. Presented in the Rising Star Session at the 24th annual International Industrial Organization Conference. Available at SSRN. [Replication package on GitHub]
Algorithmic Price Personalization Through the Surveillance of Endogenous Search. Presented at Y20 Summit, August 2026, Washington DC. [Accepted to be presented at NABE TEC 2026, San Diego CA]
Inflation as a Pretext for Raising Prices: A Test of State-Dependent Cost Pass-Through. (with John Kwoka). Submitted to the International Journal of Industrial Organization. [Replication package on GitHub]
Hidden Demand-side Links and Predictable Returns. (with Ali Sharifkhani) Available at SSRN. [Replication package on GitHub]
Algorithmic Pricing for Efficient Electricity Grid Performance: A Calibrated Counterfactual of Residential and Industrial Demand Response. (with Solmaz Abbaspour). Revised and resubmitted to Energy Policy.
Research in Progress
Agentic AI and Algorithmic Price Discrimination: Delegated Search, Disclosure, and Surveillance Pricing. (with Mehrdad Shoeibi).
Industry Experience
Senior Business Analyst, Management Department, Unilever, Iran (2018)
Led a strategic analysis of potential acquisition vs. joint venture decision for Unilever.
Conducted market research for introducing cosmetic products to new markets.
Presented cost and benefit analysis to board of governors.
Contact Information:
gmail: mu.shabanpour@gmail.com
Northeastern email: shabanpour.m@northeastern.edu
Phone: (617) 755-2083
Office: 315 Holmes Hall