Dr. Federico Echenique

Biography

Federico Echenique's research focuses on understanding economic models, agents, and markets. He is interested in determining the testable implications of economic models and the relationship between theoretical models and data. His work often addresses issues of fairness and efficiency in discrete allocation problems, two-sided matching markets, and one-sided object allocation. Echenique is active in research at the intersection of economics and computer science. He holds a Licenciado en Economía from Universidad de la República in Uruguay and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Echenique is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Game Theory Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. Before 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. Echenique has served on editorial boards for prestigious journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Economic Journal, Economic Theory, and the Journal of Economic Theory. He co-chaired the Economics and Computation conference for ACM and is currently a co-editor of Theoretical Economics.

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