Bio & C.V.
Daniel Ershov is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing & Analytics group at the UCL School of Management. He is also a CEPR Research Affiliate, CESifo Research Network Affiliate, Associate Researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics, affiliated researcher at ANITI, and Research Associate at CRESSE.
His research is in quantitative marketing and empirical industrial organization. He studies firm competition, market regulation, online markets, algorithmic pricing, influencer marketing, and digitization. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Marketing Science, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, RAND Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
Daniel received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto, where his committee was Victor Aguirregabiria, Avi Goldfarb, and Heski Bar-Isaac. He also holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a B.Soc.Sc. Honours in Economics from the University of Ottawa.
Current Positions and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor (Lecturer), UCL School of Management, 2022-present
- Associate Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics, 2022-present
- Research Affiliate, CEPR, 2021-present
- Research Affiliate, CESifo, 2019-present
- Affiliated Researcher, ANITI, 2020-present
- Research Associate, CRESSE, 2024-present
Employment History
- Assistant Professor (Lecturer), UCL School of Management, July 2022-present
- Visiting Lecturer, Imperial College Business School, January 2022-July 2022
- Assistant Professor (Junior Chair), Toulouse School of Economics, 2017-2022
- Economist, Government of Canada, 2009-2012
Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Toronto, 2017
- M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics, 2009
- B.Soc.Sc. Honours in Economics, summa cum laude, University of Ottawa, 2008
Awards
- Best Paper Award, Association of Competition Economists, 2025
- CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award, 2019
- NET Institute Summer Grant, NYU Stern, 2018
- Hartle Award, University of Toronto, 2018
- Summer Institute for Field Experiments, University of Chicago, 2017
- NBER Digitization PhD Workshop, Stanford University, 2015-2017
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2015-2017
- CRESSE Fellowship in Competition Policy, 2015
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC, 2012-2015
- Highest degree GPA in Economics, University of Ottawa, 2008
- Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 2004-2008
Students
- Jacopo Bregolin, University of Liverpool
- Vatsala Shreeti, Bank for International Settlements
- Sarah Lemaire, European Commission Joint Research Centre
- Luise Eisfeld, HEC Lausanne
- Nicolas Martinez, Cornerstone
- Luca Bennati, Bank of Mexico
- Max Sandiumenge i Boy, CREST
Professional Activities
- Seminar Organizer, UCL School of Management Marketing & Analytics, 2025-2026
- PhD Recruitment Head, UCL School of Management Marketing & Analytics, 2024-2025
- EU Commission Expert Group on Data Access for Research under the DSA Article 40, 2023
- Co-organizer, CEPR Virtual IO Seminar Series, 2020
- Co-organizer, Virtual Digital Economy Seminar, 2020/21 and 2021/22
- Co-organizer, TSE Digital Workshop, 2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21
- Co-organizer, TSE Digital Economics Conference, 2019-2022
- TSE Placement Committee, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021
Refereeing
Econometrica; Review of Economic Studies; American Economic Review; Journal of Political Economy; Marketing Science; Management Science; Quantitative Marketing & Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; MIS Quarterly; Journal of the European Economic Association; American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; The Economic Journal; JPE: Microeconomics; Journal of Industrial Economics; Review of Industrial Organization; International Journal of Industrial Organization; European Economic Review; Economic Inquiry; International Economic Review; Information Economics and Policy.
C.V.
Current PDF: June 2026.