Eduardo Zúñiga Leyton

Universidad Diego Portales

Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

email: eduardo.zuniga [at] udp.cl

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, UDP. I obtained my Ph.D. from Universidad de Chile in January 2021. My thesis was advised by Leonardo Basso and Pedro Jara-Moroni, with Juan Escobar and Rabah Amir serving as members of the committee. I completed my undergraduate studies at Universidad de Chile in Mathematical Civil Engineering (Applied Math) under the supervision of José Correa. Here you can find a brief CV.

Research Interests

Game Theory, Mathematical Economics, Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization.

Current Activities (December 2024)

My second article of the year, "Endogenous timing in a price-setting duopoly: the role of the slopes", has been accepted for publication in Applied Economics Letters. I'm really happy! You can check the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2024.2439326
On August I received a UDP Excellence Award for my teaching in the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences during the past year. This recognition inspires me to keep striving for quality education, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and analytical skills in a tech-driven world. Let’s keep improving!
Two of my students are now officially engineers! 🎉 Congratulations to Álvaro Úbeda and Javiera Frías for their exceptional work this semester. Álvaro developed an innovative model for decentralized shooting strategies in football, while Javiera applied a diverse set of tools—including cooperative game theory, Monte Carlo simulations, and sociometric analysis—to evaluate the influence of each student in a class at UDP. Proud of their achievements and excited to see what they’ll accomplish next!
On July 9, my first graduate student, Bernardo Valdivia, successfully defended his Master's thesis. Bernardo studied the relationship between implicit debt and default for a country using a sequential game with perfect but incomplete information. He achieved the highest possible grade.
In March 2024, my first solo article, "Criminals can be Leaders: An Endogenous Timing Approach to Security Games," was accepted for publication in the International Game Theory Review. I'm very happy with this achievement. You can check it out here https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219198924500063