Pedro Tanure Veloso

Senior Economist & Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart.

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About

Macroeconomist by training, applied scientist by trade.

I'm a Senior Economist and Machine Learning Engineer on the Economics team at Instacart. My work has spanned Pricing & Affordability and partnering with the Caper Carts team — Instacart's AI-powered Smart Cart — on experimentation, incentive optimization, and frameworks for sharper decision-making. Before this role I served as a Senior Data Scientist at Instacart.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. My doctoral research focused on misallocation in housing and financial markets. During graduate school I was a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and at the Minnesota Population Center.

Research

What I think about

Current

Platforms & multi-sided marketplaces

The economics of platforms and the network effects inherent in multi-sided marketplaces — pricing, affordability, and how participants on different sides shape one another's incentives.

Doctoral

Misallocation in housing & financial markets

How frictions in housing and credit markets push capital and labor away from their most productive uses, and what aggregate consequences follow.

Project

Side quests

Business Cycle Accounting Toolkit

An end-to-end Python pipeline + web dashboard that produces four-wedge business-cycle decompositions (efficiency, labor, investment, government) for arbitrary US time windows. Replicates Chari, Kehoe & McGrattan (2007).

Contact

Get in touch

Happy to talk about research, platform economics, or anything else. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.