I am Nicolás Campos Bijit, a PhD student in Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.

My research agenda studies how public procurement shapes firms and labor markets, and how labor-market institutions feed back into the prices and costs faced by the government. The central idea is that the state is not only a regulator and employer; it is also a major buyer. By deciding how contracts are allocated, how suppliers compete, which firms remain eligible, and how contractual relationships are monitored, public procurement can affect firm rents, labor demand, wage setting, compliance, and ultimately the incidence of labor regulation. I want to understand these interactions using administrative procurement data linked to employer and worker and firm records.

Before UBC, I was a researcher at Espacio Público in Chile, where I studied public procurement and corruption in infrastructure.  I co-authored The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case and the book chapter Case Study: The Odebrecht Corruption Case. I later worked as a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, evaluating active labor market programs using causal inference methods.