Lucila Porto

I am an Incoming PhD student at UC Berkeley.

• M.A. in Economics, 2022: Universidad de San Andres, Argentina

• B.A. in Economics, 2020: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Interest

I am broadly interested in topics that lie at the intersection between economics and computer science. In particular, I am interested in algorithmic game theory, mechanism design, and applied theory.

For my master’s thesis, I set up a competition a la Hotelling between two Q-Learning Algorithms. My thesis seeks to understand whether two independent algorithms, unaware of each other, learning from realized outcomes, end up implementing a deviation and punishment scheme to sustain collusion. Link to the thesis