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

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Research

Publications:

"Learning by Lobbying" (with Emiel Awad and  Gleason Judd), accepted at the American Journal of Political Science

"Information Exchange through Secret Vertical Contracts" (with Jihwan Do), Economic Theory, 2024

"International Cooperation, Information Transmission, and Delegation" (with Emiel Awad), Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2024

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

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

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

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

"Competing Auctions with Informed Sellers" (with Zizhen Ma), submitted

"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 (scheduled); LACEA-LAMES, Recife (scheduled).

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:

[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?