Andrés Gómez-Lobo

Gómez-Lobo

Associate Professor

agomezlo@econ.uchile.cl

Academic degrees

PhD. en Economía , University College London (UCL), Inglaterra

Publications Other types of contributions

Andrés Gómez-Lobo is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad de Chile

He served as Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications between 2014 and 2017. He has served as a director of Metro de Santiago (2008–2010), head of advisors to the Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications of Chile (2008–2010) and member of the Ministry of Public Works Public Private Partnership Infrastructure Council (2022 to 2026).

Professor Gómez-Lobo is a national and international consultant on transportation, regulation, and competition policy issues.

Area of specialization

Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente, Regulación, Transporte, Energía, Competencia y Antimonopolio, Telecomunicaciones

Publications

Publications in Journals with Editorial Committees

2026 / Environmental impact of a green tax on new vehicle sales in the presence of tax exemptions / Transportation Research Part A: Policy And Practice

2025 / Revisiting the Transantiago reform: were all the lessons learned? / Research In Transportation Economics

2025 / The targeting incidence of Brazil’s Vale Transporte transit subsidy scheme / Transportation

2025 / Spatial inequality and income disparities in Latin America: a multiscale analysis / Oxford Open Economics

2024 / Long-Run Labour Income Distribution Dynamics: The Case of Chile 1990-2017 / Estudios De Economia

2024 / A new look at the distributive incidence of Chile’s means-tested water subsidy scheme / Water Policy

2024 / Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru / Water International

2023 / Reducing Leakage: Subsidies and Tariff Reform in Water and Sanitation Services in Metropolitan Lima, Peru / Water Economics And Policy

2023 / Urban commuting time and sick-leave medical license use: An empirical study of Santiago, Chile / Economics Of Transportation

2022 / Optimal prices for ridesourcing in the presence of taxi, public transport and car competition / Transportation Research Part C-emerging Technologies

2021 / Baumol's cost disease and urban transport services in Latin America / Transportation Research Part A: Policy And Practice

2020 / Transit reforms in intermediate cities of Colombia: An ex-post evaluation / Transportation Research Part A: Policy And Practice

2020 / Does ride-hailing increase or decrease vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT)? A simulation approach for Santiago de Chile / International Journal Of Sustainable Transportation

2019 / Plataformas de transporte: una revisión de la literatura y propuesta de regulación / Cuadernos Económicos De Ice

2018 / Revisiting the distributional impacts of water subsidy policy in Chile: a historical analysis from 1998-2015 / Water Policy

2015 / The entry of a hard discount supermarket: price effects / Investigaciones Regionales-journal Of Regional Research

2014 / Incentives in Bus Concession Contracts: A Review of Several Experiences in Latin America / Transport Reviews

2014 / Monopoly, Subsidies and the Mohring Effect: A Synthesis / Transport Reviews

2014 / How effective are policies to reduce gasoline consumption? Evaluating a set of measures in Spain / Energy Economics

2013 / Develando econométricamente los impactos sobre la concentración atmosférica de material particulado de un proyecto de remodelación del transporte urbano: El caso del Transantiago en chile. / Estudios De Economia

2012 / / Journal Of Benefit-cost AnalysisInstitutional Safeguards for Cost Benefit Analysis: Lessons from the Chilean National Investment System / Journal Of Benefit-cost Analysis

2011 / Affordability of Public Transport A Methodological Clarification / Journal Of Transport Economics And Policy

2011 / ITQ's in Chile: Measuring the Economic Benefits of Reform / Environmental And Resource Economics

2010 / Aspectos institucionales para potenciar la evaluación social de proyectos en transporte: lecciones de América Latina

2009 / A New Look at the Incidence of Public Transport Subsidies A Case Study of Santiago, Chile / Journal Of Transport Economics And Policy

2009 / Affordability and Subsidies in Public Urban Transport: What Do We Mean, What Can Be Done? / Transport Reviews

2008 / / Journal Of Air Transport ManagementThe use of airport charges for funding general expenditures: The case of Chile / Journal Of Air Transport Management

2008 / / Revista De Analisis EconomicoSubsidios cruzados en los servicios aeronauticos y en la red aeroportuaria de Chile / Revista De Analisis Economico

2007 / Why competition does not work in urban bus markets: Some new wheels for some old ideas / Journal Of Transport Economics And Policy

2007 / / Journal Of Transport Economics And PolicyThird-party reactions to employee (mis)treatment: A justice perspective / Journal Of Transport Economics And Policy

2006 / En busca del oro: ¿Qué determina el éxito en competencias deportivas internacionales? / Trimestre Economico

2006 / / Estudios PublicosEl financiamiento de gastos generales mediante las tarifas aeronáuticas en Chile: una crítica económica / Estudios Publicos

2005 / / Transport ReviewsLimits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries / Transport Reviews

2003 / / World Bank Economic ReviewWater subsidy policies: A comparison of the Chilean and Colombian schemes / World Bank Economic Review

2003 / / TransportationYardsticks on the road: Regulatory contracts and cost efficiency in the Norwegian bus industry / Transportation

2003 / / World Bank Economic ReviewWater Subsidy Policies: A comparison of the Chilean and Colombian schemes / World Bank Economic Review

2001 / / World DevelopmentUtilities privatization and the poor: Lessons and evidence from Latin America / World Development

2001 / / Review Of Industrial OrganizationA law of large numbers: Bidding and compulsory competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts / Review Of Industrial Organization

Working papers

2025 / Putting the Passenger First: What Works and What does not Work in Urban Mobility Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

2022 / Access to Water and Covid-19: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis for the Peri-Urban Areas of Metropolitan Lima, Peru

2022 / Means-tested transit subsidies in Latin America

2022 / Agglomeration and Congestion in Latin America

2021 / Reforma tarifaria e inclusión social: el caso de los subsidios en los servicios de agua y saneamiento en Lima y Callao

2020 / La enfermedad de costos de Baumol y el transporte público

2017 / Does ridesourcing increase or decrease vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT)? A simulation approach for the case of Santiago, Chile

2017 / The efficiency case for transit subsidies in the presence of a 'soft' budget constraint

2012 / Develando econométricamente los impactos del Transantiago en la contaminación atmosférica de Santiago de Chile

2011 / Costos y Financiamiento de las Propuestas de Reforma de la Educación en Chile

2011 / Monopoly, subsidies and the mohring effect: a synthesis and an extension

2011 / Aspectos institucionales para potenciar la evaluación de proyectos de transporte: Lecciones de América Latina

2007 / Un ejercicio comparativo de las tarifas de Banda Ancha entre Chile y otros países del Mundo

2007 / Transantiago: una Reforma en Panne

2007 / Social Policy, Regulation and Private Sector water supply: the case of Colombia

2007 / La relación entre los precios de los alimentos y la concentración de los supermercados en Chile: evidencia de un modelo dinámico de panel y análisis de los impactos de las fusiones propuestas en la industria

2007 / ITQ's in Chile: Measuring the Economic Benefits of Reform

2007 / Affordability of public transport: a methodological clarification

2007 / Affordability and Subsidies in Public Urban Transport: What Do We Mean, What Can Be Done?

2007 / A New Look at the Incidence of Public Transport Subsidies: A Case Study of Santiago, Chile

2006 / Desagregación en Internet de Banda Ancha en Chile

2003 / The limits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries

2003 / Determinación de la eficiencia operativa en la regulación de monopolios naturales: El uso de la informacion de consultores versus competencia por comparaciones

2003 / Choice complexity in a Stated Choice Experiment: valuing environmental resources in Chile

2001 / Yardsticks on the road: regulatory contracts and cost efficiency in the Norweian Bus Industry

2001 / La regulación de las empresas sanitarias en Chile: una revisión del caso de EMOSy una propuesta de reforma regulatoria

2000 / En busca del Oro: ¿Qué determina el éxito en competencias deportivas internacionales?

Book Chapter

2023 / Pricing urban transport in Latin America

2009 / Mergers, Prices and Consantration in the Supermarket Industry: The Case of Chile

2007 / Bottom-up or Top-down benchmarking in natural monopoly regulation: The case of Chile and the United Kingdom

Other types of contributions

Professional practice standards or Public Policy

2025 / #PúblicaParaLaRepública Pensar y actuar en la política pública desde la Universidad de Chile

Academic/professional meeting presentations

2022 / Urban commuting time and sick-leave medical license use: an empirical study of Santiago, Chile

Others

2007 / La política social en Telecomunicaciones en Colombia

2007 / ITQ's in Chile: Measuring the Economic Benefits of Reform

2007 / Colombia

Opinion Column

2025 / La importancia del competidor disruptivo en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones

2024 / Empleo, competencia y la nueva ley de pesca

2008 / Mitos sobre el impuesto a los combustibles