Francisco Castro
I'm an assistant professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. My work focuses on the operations and design of markets with emphasis on their spatial and incentive aspects. I'm particularly interested in the design of optimal pricing policies and contracts that can be used in digital marketplaces such as ride-hailing platforms and ad exchanges.
Research Interests
Working Papers
Human-AI Interactions and Societal Pitfalls. [arXiv]
Electric Vehicle Fleet and Charging Infrastructure Planning. [SSRN]
Autonomous Vehicles in Ride-Hailing and the Threat of Spatial Inequalities. [SSRN]
Power-of-d Choices Load Balancing in the Sub-Halfin Whitt Regime. [arXiv]
Randomized FIFO Mechanisms. [arXiv]
Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Two-Sided Markets with Strategic Servers. [arXiv]
Matching Queues, Flexibility and Incentives. [arXiv]
Optimal Timing of a Multi-Stage Project Under Market Uncertainty. [Link]
Published Papers
Getting Out of Your Own Way: Introducing Autonomous Vehicles on a Ride-Hailing Platform. [SSRN]
Mechanism Design under Approximate Incentive Compatibility. [arXiv]
Matching Queues with Reneging: a Product Form Solution. [arXiv]
Third-Degree Price Discrimination Versus Uniform Pricing. [arXiv]
The Scope of Sequential Screening with Ex-post Participation Constraints. [SSRN]
Surge Pricing and its Spatial Supply Response. [Informs]
Spatial Capacity Planning. [Informs]
Fellowships and Awards
- 2021 M&SOM Meritorious Service Award
- Deming Doctoral Research Fellowship, The W. Edwards Deming Center, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, 2018
- Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, 2014–2019
- Outstanding Student Award, School of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Chile, 2008, and 2012. Award conferred to the best 10 % students of every year
Contact Me
You can reach me at: francisco.castro At anderson.ucla.edu