Richard Faltings

Richard Faltings is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego. His research bridges Empirical Industrial Organization and Market Design with applications in Digital Platforms and Transportation Economics. He employs advanced methods from Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning to analyze dynamic pricing, auction mechanisms, and contractual flexibility.

• PhD in Economics from University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. and B.A. from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

His work on dynamic externalities examines how platform design affects long-term user behavior. Key projects include: analyzing cancellation policies in trucking industries, modeling oligopolistic pricing in micromobility services, and quantifying linguistic bias in Swiss soccer refereeing. His 2023 Kyklos publication revealed subconscious referee biases through yellow/red card patterns across 5,010 matches.

Recent publications span:

• Pricing the Right to Renege in Search Markets (2025, EC'25 extended abstract) – trucking industry auction data
• Oligopolistic Price Competition in Space and Time (2024) – D.C. micromobility pricing simulations
• Equilibria in Decentralized Freight Networks (2024) – spatial price dispersion and market power

Scientific awards include:

• Twitch Research Fellowship (2021)

His personal website hosts code packages like GT.Tools for game theory education and open-source research repositories.