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Nicolás Figueroa
Profesor Titular - Director Cátedra de Economía e Inteligencia Artificial Vicente Larraín Izquierdo y Marta Bascuñán Lazcano
Nicolás Figueroa es profesor titular del Instituto de Economía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde dirige la Cátedra de Economía e Inteligencia Artificial Vicente Larraín Izquierdo y Marta Bascuñán Lazcano y el área de Educación Continua.
Es ingeniero civil matemático de la Universidad de Chile y doctor en Economía de la Universidad de Minnesota, Estados Unidos.
Sus áreas de especialización son el diseño de mecanismos, la teoría de juegos y la organización industrial. Ha publicado en revistas como la American Economic Review, The RAND Journal of Economics, el Journal of Economic Theory y Management Science.
Es profesor de la UC desde 2011. Antes, entre 2006 y 2011, fue profesor de la FCFM de la Universidad de Chile. Entre 2022 y 2025 fue director alterno del Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI).
Áreas de especialización: economía de la información, diseño de mecanismos, teoría de juegos
Áreas de interés
Diseño de Mecanismos, Teoría de Juegos, Organización Industrial
- (56-2) 2354 4327
- nicolasf@uc.cl
Publicaciones recientes
Regulation and Responsible Innovation
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi , Jorge Lemus
- Journal of Law Economics & Organization, Forthcoming
The role of information in collective decisions
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Nicolás Figueroa;
José-Alberto Guerra, Francisco Silva
- Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming
Efficient Mechanisms for Multi-asset Bilateral Trading
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Vasiliki Skreta
- Journal Of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, March 2026
Optimal screening with securities
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Nicolas Inostroza
- Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 231, January 2026
Ramsey pricing revisited: Natural monopoly regulation with evaders
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Martín Besfamille;
Nicolás Figueroa;
L. Guzmán-Lizardo
- Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 73, July 2025
Procuring Drugs while Regulating the Private Market
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- Economics Letters, Volume 250, April 2025
Signaling in Dynamic Contests with Heterogeneous Rivals
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Jorge Catepillán, Jorge Lemus
- Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 116, February 2025
The Benefit of the Doubt: Patent Examination under Strategic Obfuscation
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Jorge Lemus
- Management Science, Volumen 70, September 2024
Signaling through Tests
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 92, December 2023
The Pandemic Exodus: What Drives Private to Public School Migration in Peru
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Gregory Elacqua, Andrés Fontaine, Juan Margitic, Carolina Méndez
- Economics of Education Review, Volume 108, October 2025
Fare Evasion and Monopoly Regulation
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Martín Besfamille;
Nicolás Figueroa;
L. Guzmán
- Documento de Trabajo IE-PUC, N° 566, 2022
Testing the sender: When signaling is not enough
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 197, October 2021
The Impact of Short-Term Pricing on Flexible Generation Investments in Electricity Markets
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Cristian Villalobos; Matías Negrete; Álvaro Lorca; Daniel Olivares
- Energy Economics, Volume 98, June 2021
The value of aggregators in local electricity markets: A game theory based comparative analysis
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Rafael Rodríguez; Matías Negrete-Pincetic; Álvaro Lorca; Daniel Olivares
- Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, Volume 27, September 2021
Imperfect Information Transmission from Banks to Investors: Macroeconomic Implications
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Oksana Leukhina
- Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 118, March 2021
Signaling Quality in the Presence of Observational Learning
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- Review of Industrial Organization, Volume 56, May 2020
Testing the sender: When signaling is not enough
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- Documento de Trabajo IE-PUC, N° 547, 2020
Effects of asymmetric information on airport congestion management mechanisms
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Olivia Aravena; Leonardo J. Basso
- International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 62, January 2019
Patent Trading Flows of Small and Large Firms
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carlos Serrano
- Research Policy, Volume 48, September 2019
The Chilean Anti‑cartel Experience: Accomplishments and Challenges
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Umut Aydin
- Review of Industrial Organization, Volume 54, March 2019
Do you like me enough? The impact of restricting preferences ranking in a university matching process
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Jeanne Lafortune;
Nicolás Figueroa;
Alejandro Sáenz
- Documento de Trabajo IE-PUC, N° 518, 2018
Cash flows and credit cycles
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Oksana Leukhina
- Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 87, February 2018
Mechanism design when players’ preferences and informationcoincide
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Marcelo Caffera, Juan Dubra
- Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 91, January 2018
Monopoly regulation under asymmetric information: prices versus quantities
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Leonardo Basso, Jorge Vásquez
- The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 48, 2017
Convincing early adopters: Price signals and Information transmission
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Carla Guadalupi
- Documento de Trabajo IE-PUC, N° 486, 2017
Optimization of a biotechnological multiproduct batch plant design for the manufacture of four different products: A real case scenario
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Gabriela Sandoval, Daniel Espinoza, Juan A. Asenjo
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Volume 114, February 2017
Discounts as a Barrier to Entry
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Juan-Pablo Montero;
Nicolás Figueroa;
Enrique Ide
- American Economic Review, Volume 106, July 2016
Adversarial classification using signaling games with an application to phishing detection
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Gastón L’Huillier, Richard Weber
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 31, March 2016
MILP reformulations for the design of biotechnological multi-product batch plants using continuous equipment sizes and discrete host selection
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Nicolás Figueroa;
G. Sandoval, D. Espinoza, J.A. Asenjo
- Computers & Chemical Engineering, Volume 84, January 2016
Lending terms and aggregate productivity
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Oksana Leukhina
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 59, October 2015
Sequential procurement auctions and their effect on investment decisions
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Nicolás Figueroa;
Gonzalo Cisternas
- The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 46, 2015
Pricing with markups in industries with increasing marginal costs
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Nicolás Figueroa;
José R. Correa; Roger Lederman; Nicolás E. Stier-Moses
- Mathematical Programming, Volume 146, August 2014