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Julio Peña-Torres
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E-mail: julioalept@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Economics), University of London (QMW College)
M.Sc. (Development Economics), University of Oxford
M.A. with Distinction (Economics), P. Universidad Católica de Chile
B.A. with Distinction (Economics), P. Universidad Católica de Chile
1995
1988
1985
1983
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 Economist Consultant. 2013-present
 Principal Economist/Judge at the Chilean Antitrust-specialized Tribunal. 2004-2012
 Associate Professor, Economics & Business School, Univ. Alberto Hurtado. 2001-2012
 Senior Advisor to Chilean Minister of Economics. 2000-2004
 Permanent Lectureship in Economics, School of Development Studies, Univ. East Anglia/UK. 19992000
 Post-Doc Research Associate, Imperial College, Centre for Environmental Technology (ICCET),
University of London. 1996-1999
 Lecturer in Economics, Economics Dept., Universidad de Chile, Santiago. 1993-1995
 Research Economist, Chilean Ministry of Economic Planning. 1986-1987
AWARDS/Scholarships for academic excellence
 Overseas Research Students Award (UK). 1992-1993
 Chilean Government Scholarship. 1989-1992
 British Council Award. 1987-1988
 Instituto de Economía. P. Universidad Católica de Chile. 1984
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
(for more info on my publications: see full CV)
Latest submissions to peer-refereed journals
 J. Peña-Torres, J. Dresdner and I. Luzardo. Collective Catch Quotas and ex-vessel Price Determination:
Bilateral Monopoly Bargaining in the Chilean artisanal Austral Hake fishery. Submitted (MRE, 2nd
round R&R). 2016.
 J. Peña-Torres, J. Dresdner and F. Vásquez. El Niño and Fishing Location Decisions: The Chilean
Straddling Jack Mackerel Fishery. Submitted (MRE, 2nd round R&R). 2016.
 K. Kroetz, J. Sanchirico, J. Peña-Torres and D. Corderi. Evaluation of the Chilean Jack Mackerel ITQ
system. Submitted (MRE, 2nd round R&R). 2016.
(Online published version, as Working Paper: https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/7509)
 J. Peña-Torres, R. Muñoz and C. Kaufmann. Repeated Selling of Production Rights: Entry and the role
of Object- and Auction-Design. To be re-submitted (Marine Policy, IF=2,6). 2016.
 J. Peña-Torres, R. Muñoz and G. Fernández. Entry Deterrence, Auctions and the Divisibility of the
Object for Sale. To be re-submitted. 2016.
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Published in English (peer-reviewed journals)
 V. Martinet, J. Peña-Torres, M. de Lara & H. Ramírez. Risk and Sustainability: Assessing Fisheries
Management Strategies. Environmental and Resource Economics (ISI). 2015 (online March).
 A. Gómez-Lobo, J. Peña-Torres & P. Barría. ITQs in Chile: Measuring the Economic Benefits of
Reform. Environmental and Resource Economics (ISI). 2011.
 P. Gajardo, J. Peña-Torres & H. Ramírez. Harvesting economic models and catch-to-biomass
dependence: The case of small pelagic fish. Natural Resource Modeling (ISI). 2011.
 S. Tveteras, C. Paredes & J. Peña-Torres. Individual Vessel Quotas in Peru: Stopping the Race for
Anchovies. Marine Resource Economics (ISI). 2011.
 J. Peña-Torres, C. Agostini & S. Vergara. (2007), Fish stock endogeneity in the harvest function: El
Niño effects on the Chilean Jack Mackerel Fishery. Revista de Análisis Económico, 2007
 J. Peña-Torres & P.J Pearson. Carbon abatement and new investment in liberalised electricity markets: a
nuclear revival in the UK? Energy Policy (ISI).2000
 J. Peña-Torres & M. Basch. Harvesting in a Pelagic Fishery: the case of Northern Chile. Annals of
Operations Research (ISI). 2000
 J. Peña-Torres. Harvesting Preemption, Industrial Concentration and Enclosure of National Marine
Fisheries. Environmental and Resource Economics (ISI). 1999
 J. Peña-Torres. Private Nuclear Electricity in the UK: Uncertain Tradeoffs in its future. Nuclear
Energy. 1999
 J. Peña-Torres, R. Serra & M. Basch. Who can fish what and where: Chile’s trade-offs in high seas
fishing of transboundary Species. Marine Resource Economics (ISI). 1999
 M. Basch, J. Peña-Torres & H. Dufey. Economies of Scale and Stock Dependence in Pelagic
Harvesting: the case of Northern Chile. Cuadernos de Economía. 1999
 J. Peña-Torres. The Political Economy of Fishing Regulation: the case of Chile. Marine Resource
Economics (ISI). 1997
 J. Peña-Torres. Sustainability versus Fishing Collapse: A Review of Causes and Welfare Prescriptions.
Estudios de Economía. 1996
 J. Peña-Torres & J. Nuñez. On the Regulation of Marine Industrial Fisheries: the case of Chile. Estudios
de Economía. 1994
Published in Spanish (peer-reviewed journals)
 J. Peña-Torres & G. Fernandez. Disuasión de Entrada, Subastas Repetidas y Divisibilidad del Objeto en
Venta. Estudios de Economía (ISI). 2010
 J. Bustos, J. Peña-Torres & M. Willington. Joint Ventures y Especialización Productiva en la Industria del
Vino en Chile. Estudios Públicos. 2008
 J. Peña-Torres, J. Bustos & C. Pérez. Mercados Informales y Control Vertical: Comercialización de
Producción Perecible. Estudios Públicos. 2006
 J. Peña-Torres, S. Vergara & M. Basch. El Dilema de la Escala Productiva frente a Ciclos de Abundancia:
La Pesca Industrial en Chile. Trimestre Económico (ISI). 2004
 J. Peña-Torres, J. Aguirre & R. Cerda. Pesca Demersal en Chile: Eficiencia Técnica y Escalas de
Operación. Revista de Análisis Económico. 2004
 J. Peña-Torres, M. Basch & S. Vergara. Eficiencia Técnica y Escalas de Operación en Pesca Pelágica:
Un análisis de fronteras estocásticas. Cuadernos de Economía. 2003
 J. Peña-Torres. Debates sobre Cuotas Individuales Transferibles: ¿‘Privatizando’ el Mar? ¿Subsidios? o
¿Muerte Anunciada de la Pesca Extractiva en Chile?. Estudios Públicos. 2002
 J. Peña-Torres, R. Serra & M. Basch. Pesca en Alta Mar de Recursos Transzonales: Alternativas de
Política para Chile. Estudios Públicos. 2000
 J. Peña-Torres, J. Barton & R. Fuentes. Desafíos de Política Pesquera en Chile: Un Ensayo más allá de
la Coyuntura. Estudios Públicos. 1999
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J. Peña-Torres (1996). Regulación Pesquera en Chile: una perspectiva histórica. Cuadernos de
Economía. 1996
J. Peña-Torres, M. Basch, & H. Dufey. Funciones de Captura en la Pesquería Pelágica del Norte
Chileno: una Estimación de Panel. Estudios de Economía. 1996
Book Chapters
 S.F Herrick, J.G. Norton, R. Hannesson, R. Sumaila, M. Ahmed & J. Peña-Torres. Global Production
and Economics of Small Pelagic Fish. In D. Checkley, C. Roy, J. Alheit & Y. Oozeki (eds.), Climate
Change and Small Pelagic Fish, CUP. 2008
 J. Peña-Torres & P.J. Pearson. Pricing Carbon Emissions in the UK Electricity Market: a Nuclear
Revival? In Hornsnell, P., MacKerron, G. And Pearson, P.J. (eds), A New Era for Energy? Price
signals, Industry Structures and Environment. OUP. 2000
 E. Figueroa & J. Peña-Torres. Crisis en la Agricultura Chilena?, en Comentarios sobre la Coyuntura
Económica Chilena. U. de Chile. 1994
RESEARCH WORK IN PROGRESS
 Subastas de Derechos de Agua en Chile: ¿Qué pasó post-Código del 2005? (with G. Donoso & E. Vargas)
 Non-binding Cap and Transboundary Stock in a Tradable Permit Program (with J. Sanchirico & K. Kroetz)
 Licitaciones Municipales & Antitrust: Recolección y Disposición de Basura (with L. Letelier & A.
Sepúlveda)
OPINIONS/SHORT NOTES (published at newspapers & other regular publications; all in Spanish)
 (with R. Muñoz) On: Private-Public Associations for building & operating Hospitals. El Pulso. 2015
 On: Auctioning fishing rights. Diario Financiero. 2015
 On: Chilean Fisheries & Auctions. El Pulso. 2015
 On: Corruption and Illegaly (Penta, SQM, Cabal y otros). Diario Financiero. 2015
 On: Public Trust and Profit-seeking at Markets. La Tercera. 2014
 On: Private Health Insurers and Vertical Integration to Clinics. La Tercera. 2014
 On: Coordination at Markets and Antitrust Law. El Mercurio. 2014
 On: Entrepreneurship and Access to (fish) Resource Rents. La Tercera. 2013
 On: Nuclear Energy in Chile. Observatorio Económico/UAH. 2011
 On: Antitrust & ‘Excessive’ Pricing. Observatorio Económico. 2011
 On: Royalty on Mineral Rents. Observatorio Económico. 2010
 On: Why royalties at Big Mining? El Mostrador. 2010
 On: Private Health Insurers and state-covered (GES) guarantees. Observatorio Económico. 2009
 On: Property rights and investment at fresh-food street markets. Observatorio Económico. 2009
 On: ITQs at Chilean marine fisheries. Observatorio Económico. 2008
 (with J. Velozo) On: Public Notaries & Registers of Property: Monopolies of Privilege. La Semana
Jurídica; and Observatorio Económico. 2007
 On: Nuclear Energy: The last resort. La Tercera. 2005
 (with M. Willington) On: Supermarkets’ contracting and Code of Conduct. El Mercurio. 2005
RESEARCH GRANTS
 Principal Researcher (PR). Maths and Computing: Management of Marine Fisheries (3-country project).
Conicyt/Chile, Perú & France. 2007-2009
 Co-researcher (co-R). Bioeconomic modeling of the Chilean Jurel fishery. Fondecyt/Chile. 2003-2004
 PR. Catch efficiency and Regulatory Policies in a small-pelagic fishery: Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
Fondecyt/Chile. 2000-2001.
 PR. Issues in Urban Economics: the case of Santiago/Chile. Funded by private economic conglomerate.
Led to an International Conference. 1995 (Papers published at Estudios de Economía, Agosto 1996)
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PR. The Chilean Northern pelagic fishery: On the harvesting function. Fondecyt/Chile. 1994-1995
SELECTED TEACHING
 Antitrust and Regulatory Economics. (Undergraduate, U): Business School. Univ. Federico Santa María
(UFSM). 2016
 Antitrust issues in electronic payments transactional networks (Graduate, Lectures). Faculty of Law,
PUC-Chile, Santiago. 2016
 Industrial Organization. (Master (M); U): Economics/Business School, Univ. Alberto Hurtado. 20012012.
 Natural Resource Economics. (M): Economics/Business School, Univ. Alberto Hurtado. 2001-2012.
 Natural Resource & Environmental Economics. (M): School of Development Studies, Univ. of East
Anglia UK. 1999-2000; (U): Economics School. Univ. de Chile. 1993-1995
 Industrial Organization (U): Economics School. Univ. de Chile. 1993-1995
 Regulatory Economics (U): Economics School. Univ. de Chile. 1995
INVITED LECTURES
(For fuller info on other academic seminars: see my full CV)
Chile:
 Antitrust Law & Collusion: U. Autónoma; UFSM. 2015
 Risk & Sustainability: Assessing Fishery Management Strategies: Univ. de Concepción. 2015
 Profit-seeking & Antitrust Law: UFSM; U. del Desarrollo; FNE. 2013
 Repeated Auctions & Entry Deterrence: U. Concepción; U. del Desarrollo. 2013
 Antitrust Policy & Economic Theory: Inst. Milenio Sist. Complejos Ingeniería, U. Chile. 2010
 Antitrust & Price Discrimination: Chilean Antitrust Tribunal (TDLC Workshop). 2010
 ITQs. Measuring the economic benefits of reform: Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias del Mar. 2009
 ITQs’ results in Chile: Instituto L&D/SOFOFA. 2009
 Market Dominance & Excessive Prices: TDLC Workshop. 2006
 Mathematics and Fishery Management: CMM U. de Chile. 2006
 New forms of fisheries management in Chile: ASIPES & SUBPESCA. 2005
 Chilean fisheries: Current Policy Issues & Challenges: SUBPESCA. 2002
 Reforms to the Chilean Fisheries Law: CONAMA. 2002
Other countries:
 How to auction fishing rights. (State) Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA): Multi-country
management scheme for the largest tuna fishery in the world. Annual Workshop PNA (Fiji). 2016
 Profit-seeking & Antitrust Law: Univ. del Pacífico (Lima); Univ. ESAP (Bogotá). 2014
 ITQ fishery management schemes in Chile: Policy Session. World Congress Environmental & Resource
Economics (Estambul). 2014
 Antitrust Institutions in Chile; Antitrust Law & Collusion: Univ. ESAP (Bogotá). 2014
 Rights-based fishery management in Chile: NOAA/National Marine Service (S. Francisco CA). 2010.
Also (2010): IFREMER (Brest); LAMETA (U. Montpellier); Agro Paris Tech (Paris).
 Repeated Auctions & Entry Deterrence: UBC (Vancouver). 2010. Also (2009): Univ. Autónoma de
Occidente (Cali); Universidad Javeriana (Cali).
 El Niño & Recruitment Modelling (Chilean Jurel fishery): IMCA; Univ. del Pacífico (both at Lima).
2006. Also (2005): Norwegian School of Economics & Business (Bergen); ICCET Imperial College
(London)
 ITQs and resource rents in Chilean fisheries: Norwegian School of Economics & Business (Bergen).
2005
 Fisheries Management Schemes in Chile: Ministerio de la Producción (Lima). 2005
 Harvest function in the Chilean Jurel fishery: Univ. of Portsmouth (UK). 2004
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Nuclear Revival? Pricing carbon emissions in the UK electricity market: British Institute of Energy
Economics (London). 1999
The United Nations 1995 Agreement on High Seas Fishing of Straddling Stocks: the case of Chile:
Norwegian School of Economics & Business (Bergen). 1999
SELECTED CONSULTING (latest)
 Sonapesca. Description of the Chilean Fishing Industry and its contribution to the national economy.
2016
 SalmonChile. Antitrust issues and regulation of maximum production levels in the Salmon aquaculture
industry in Chile. 2016.
 Sonapesca. On Debate about ‘Royalty a la Pesca’ en Chile (specific-tax on Fishing sector). 2016.
 (State) Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), Invited Talk: “How to auction fishing permits”.
Annual Workshop PNA (Fiji). (Multi-country management scheme for the largest tuna fishery in the
world). 2016.
 Banco Estado. Antitrust issues in the payment card industry. 2015-2016
 Private fishing company. Advising on competition strategy at auctioning process for allocating fishing
quotas. 2015.
 IDB. Economic evaluation of market-based fisheries policies in Latin America: cases of Chile & Perú.
2014-2015
 Chilean Government (Subpesca). Statistical indicators for monitoring socio-economic impacts at the
Chilean salmon aquaculture industry. 2013-2014
 Chilean Antitrust Prosecuting Agency (FNE). Vertical Integration and Contracting between private
clinics and private health insurance companies. 2013
 Chilean Fishing Industry and Salmon Aquaculture Associations. Institutional Arrangements for
Regulation and Enforcement of Fishing and Aquaculture Industries. A multi-country comparative
analysis. 2013
 Punta-Arenas Port (public-sector) Company. Preliminary analysis of pricing rules for allocation of
port management- and service-provision-rights to private companies. 2013
 Chilean Salmon Aquaculture Association. Economic analysis of proposed legal reforms on the
allocation of aquaculture production permits. 2012
 Chilean Government (FIP). Economic evaluation of fishery management reforms in the Chilean
Austral Hake Fishery. 2007-2008
 Chilean Government (FIP). Analysis of the sanctioning system in the regulation of Chilean marine
fisheries. 2007
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