Javier Boncompte

Economics PhD Candidate

University College London

About me

I am an Economics PhD candidate at University College London. My research interests lie in Industrial Organization and Applied Economics, with a focus on studying how firms compete in the product space and their growth dynamics. I am affiliated with the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Interests

Product competition
Firm dynamics

Education

PhD(c) Economics, 2025*
University College London - United Kingdom
MSc in Economics
University College London - United Kingdom
MSc in Systems Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica - Chile
BSc in Transport Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica - Chile

Featured work

Javier Boncompte

April, 2024

Product reformulation with endogenous unobservables: Evidence from the soft drinks industry levy in the UK

An industry levy on soft drinks in the UK led firms to reformulate their products, reducing sugar content and potentially altering other unobserved characteristics, such as taste. I study the impact of this reformulation on product entry and exit, accounting for the endogeneity due to the correlation between observed and unobserved characteristics.

Working papers

Javier Boncompte (2024). Product reformulation with endogenous unobservables: Evidence from the soft drinks industry levy in the UK.

Javier Boncompte, Oscar Perello (2024). Customer Management in Global Markets: Theory and Evidence.

Projects

pyInteractiveFixedEffects - A Python package for interactive fixed effects estimation.

Python implementation of various Interactive Fixed Effects estimators for panel data.