Diego
Aparicio

Assistant Professor of Marketing

• Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Diego Aparicio is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at IESE Business School. He teaches a Pricing elective as well as Marketing Management in the MBA, Master in Management, and Executive programs.

His research studies optimal pricing and assortment decisions, online platforms, retailing, and applied topics in corporate finance. Prior to joining IESE, he worked in the finance and technology industries.

His research has been featured at the NBER, The Economist, Bloomberg, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, among others.

Areas of interest.

• Pricing
• Economics of Digitization
• Artificial Intelligence
• Lab Experiments
• Industrial Organization

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

APARICIO, D., PRELEC, D., ZHU, W. (2025). Choice overload and the long tail. Consideration sets and purchases in online platforms. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. doi:10.1287/msom.2021.0318. (Online first) MARTÍNEZ DE ALBÉNIZ, V., APARICIO, D., BALSACH, J. (2025). The Resilience of fashion retail stores. Production and Operations Management. doi:10.1177/10591478251317485. (Online first) APARICIO, D., METZMAN, Z., RIGOBON, R. (2024). The pricing strategies of online grocery retailers. QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 22 (1), 1–21, doi:10.1007/s11129-023-09273-w.

Working Papers

SPANN, M., BERTINI, M., KOENIGSBERG, O., ZEITHAMMER, R., APARICIO, D., CHEN , Y., FANTINI, F., JIN, G., MORWITZ, V., LESZCZYC, P., ... VITORINO, M. (2024). Algorithmic pricing. Implications for consumers, managers, and regulators (No. w32540). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. APARICIO, D., ECKLES, D., KUMAR, M. (2023). Algorithmic pricing and consumer sensitivity to price variability.

Proceedings

LADA, A., PEYSAKHOVICH, A., APARICIO, D., BAILEY, M. (2019). Observational data for heterogeneous treatment effects with application to recommender systems. EC '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (pp. 199-213). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Book Chapters

APARICIO, D., MISRA, K. (2022). Artificial intelligence and pricing. In Sudhir, K. and Toubia, O. (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in marketing (pp. 103-124). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.