lmusolff.com

Site Orientation and Content

This is the personal academic homepage of Leon Musolff, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Wharton School. The site's content centers on the author's academic background, research focus and published work. The author's main research area is empirical industrial organization, with a focus on antitrust and the digital economy, and he also serves as a research fellow at the NBER. The homepage organizes his work into three clear categories: work in progress, working papers, and accepted/published papers. Every paper includes an abstract, most offer full-text PDF downloads and supporting appendices, and some research also links to public coverage from authoritative outlets like the Financial Times and The Washington Post.

User Experience and Key Features

The entire site has a clean, simple design with clear information hierarchy, so users can quickly locate research outputs at different stages. All content is accessible without registration or login, with no access barriers at all. As a scholar's personal homepage, the content is highly specialized, covering a wide range of current hot topics in the digital economy space, including cloud computing market design, the impact of AI on software development productivity, search engine market competition, and platform algorithm self-preferencing. The research relies primarily on empirical analysis methods, and is highly valuable as a reference for researchers working in related fields.

Shortcomings and Target Audience

The site's limitations are also clear: it only serves as a personal academic portfolio, with no additional features such as academic discussion or new publication alerts. The entire site is in English, which is not user-friendly for Chinese researchers who are not proficient in the language.

This website is a great reference for researchers and graduate students working in industrial economics and digital economy in China. Chinese users can access it directly right now, no VPN required.