Nicolas Eschenbaum

I’m an economist and competition expert, and a Managing Economist and partner at Swiss Economics, where I lead the AI practice. I prepare expert reports in competition cases, advise authorities including the European Commission, and research algorithmic pricing, digital markets, and AI as an affiliated researcher at the Zurich Center for Market Design (UZH).

What I research

• Algorithmic pricing and collusion: designing and implementing pricing algorithms, and how rivals that share one algorithm provider compete.
• Multi-agent AI risk: how learning agents come to coordinate without instruction, and how to audit them from their policies alone.
• AI markets: market power, switching costs, and lock-in in foundation models (research note).
• Digital markets and regulation: platform competition and the Digital Markets Act.
• Energy markets: pricing, market power, and the design of electricity-trading platforms.

See Research for papers and Applied Work for selected projects; my CV has the full record.

Contact: nicolas.eschenbaum [at] swiss-economics.ch for expert work and engagements; nicolas.eschenbaum [at] gmail.com for research.