Welcome!

I am Nicolás Riquelme, an Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Universidad de los Andes, Chile. I am also the Director of the Master in Economics. I obtained my  Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester, NY, USA. 

My research interests include game theory, industrial organization, antitrust-regulation and political economy.

Email: nriquelme[at]uandes.cl

CV: Click here

Research

Publications:

• "Learning by Lobbying" (with Emiel Awad and  Gleason Judd), American Journal of Political Science, 2025; DOI: 10.1111/ajps.7001; 

Summary at AJPS's Blog.

• "Information Exchange through Secret Vertical Contracts" (with Jihwan Do), Economic Theory, 2024, 78, 671-707; DOI: 10.1007/s00199-023-01539-4

• "International Cooperation, Information Transmission, and Delegation" (with Emiel Awad), Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2024, 19 (2): 217-242; DOI: 10.1561/100.00022031.

Teaching

Competition, Markets and Regulation (Graduate) 

Game Theory for Strategic Advantage (Graduate) 

Industrial Organization (Undergraduate)

Grants

Fondecyt Iniciación (2021-2024). Research project: "Auctions and Information Transmission".

Working Papers

"Competitive Limit of Competing Auctions" (with Zizhen Ma), R&R Games and Economic Behavior

"Competing Auctions with Informed Sellers" (with Zizhen Ma), R&R Economic Theory

"Diversity and Empowerment in Organizations" (with Daniel Habermacher), submitted

"Vertical Contracting and Informational Spillover in Cournot Competition" (with Jihwan Do), submitted

"Signalling Willingness to Hire through Wage-Setting Mechanisms" (with Jose Valenzuela)

"Discretion to Encourage Effort for Different Information Technologies" (with Stefan Elbl)

"Common Agency with Informed Principals: Revelation Principle" 

"The Ineffectiveness of the Optimal Merger Regulation"

Conferences/Seminars

2025: USACH; SECHI, Arica; UNAB; LACEA-LAMES, Recife; Workshop in Management Science, Santa Cruz.

2024: SAET, Santiago, Chile; PET, Santiago, Chile.; Ca Foscari University of Venice; Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest; Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, NY; Games 2024, Beijing; SECHI, Concepción; U. Talca; U. Católica del Maule.

2023: EARIE, Rome; Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, NY; The ISDG Workshop, Naples; The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications, Lisbon; Workshop on Industrial Organization & Economic Theory (TOI), Viña del Mar.

2022: Universidad de Chile; Universidad de Piura; UNSAAC (online); Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, NY; International Conference on Public Economic Theory, Marseille; SIOE Conference, Toronto; The 20th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston; LACEA-LAMES, Lima. 

2021: SECHI, SAET (online); GAMES (online).

2020: PUC-Chile (online); U. Diego Portales (online); Quebec Political Economy Webinar Series (online).

2019: U. Andes; Georgia Tech; SECHI; LACEA-LAMES, Puebla.

2018: Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, NY.

2017: Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, NY; Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Dallas.

2016: Wallis Institute U. of Rochester; SECHI.

Press

2025:

[DF] Concentración en mercado aérero: Grupo ABRA y SKY

[El Mercurio] Join Venture CODELCO-SQM

[TVN, Radio BioBio] Colusión de la centolla.

[Ex-Ante] Empresas chinas en el sector eléctrico chileno.

[La Estrella de Concepción] Licitaciones de pesca.

[Radio BioBio] Licitaciones de generación eléctrica.

[Emol] Metro Pago y Librecompetencia.

[The Clinic] Concentración centros de sky y snowboard en Santiago.

[TVN, Cooperativa, BioBio, LUN, 24 Horas] Colusión en el mercado del Delivery.

[La Tercera] Abuso posición dominante CDF.

[Cooperativa] Librecompetencia y Google en Chile.

[El Mercurio] Locales chinos y su expansión hacia centros comerciales de la RM.

[Emol] Licitaciones explotación Litio.

2024:

[El Mercurio] Los efectos en Chile de la posible separación de Chrome y Google.

[Emol] Nuevos premios Nobel en Economía. 

[MEGA] Cartel del oxígeno: Escándalo de empresas por coludirse para subir precios a hospitales y clínicas.

[DF] Reduflación ¿Por qué los productos se siguen encogiendo?