Research Bio

Federico Echenique  is a professor in the Department of Economics.  His research focuses on understanding economic models of agents and markets; determining the testable implications of economic models and developing methods for economic data. His work on algorithms and fair market design is at the intersection of economics and computer science.

Echenique is a Licenciado en Economía from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay and holds a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Game Theory Society, and of the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, he was the Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics at the California Institute of Technology, where he served on the faculty for 20 years. He is the vice-chair of the ACM special interest group on economics and computation.  Echenique has served on the editorial boards for the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Economic Journal, Economic Theory, and the Journal of Economic Theory. He has co-chaired the Economics and Computation conference of the ACM and is currently the editor of Theoretical Economics.

Research Expertise and Interest

economic theory, economics and computation, mathematical economics, discrete allocation problems