Research

Working Papers

"The tails of firm growth, granularity, and business cycles"   [Slides]

Online Appendix 

Portuguese Economy Research Report


"The square root of all evil: the role of market power in fiscal consolidations” (with Paulo Brito, Luís Costa, and João Costa-Filho)


"The impact of short-term rentals on housing supply: Evidence from Lisbon” (with Bernardo Costa and Sofia Franco)


"Machine Learning Counterfactual Imputation with Endogenous Covariates: The Pandemic's Effect on Peer-to-Peer Accommodation" (with Bernardo Costa and Qiwei Han)


Published/Forthcoming

Demand, Supply and Markup Fluctuations” (with Luis Costa and Paulo Brito)

The Economic Journal, vol. 132 (644), 2022, 1620–1645. [ABS 4]

Replication file

Working paper


“Identifying Demand Shocks from Production Data”

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, vol. 38, issue 1, pp. 93-106.  [ABS 4]


“Sunk Costs of R&D, Trade and Productivity: The moulds industry case”

The Economic Journal, 2017, vol. 127, issue 603, pp. 1626-1664.  [Online Appendix and Replication File] [ABS 4]

Featured in the Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/royal-economic-society-paper-on-the-impact-of-leaving-a-trading-area-2017-8 


The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal” (with Sofia Franco)

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021. [one of the most cited articles] [ABS 3]

Featured in Visão (in portuguese) https://visao.sapo.pt/atualidade/2021-06-07-alojamento-local-aumentou-ate-30-valor-das-casas-no-centro-de-lisboa/ 


"Collaboration scope and product innovation in B2B Markets: Are there too many cooks or is it the customer who spoils the broth? ” (with Erik Mooi and Ernst Osinga)

European Journal of Marketing, vol.  56 (3), 2022. [ABS 3]


“Online Word of Mouth and Market Structure”

Portuguese Economic Journal, 2020. [ABS 1]


"Produtividade em Portugal no século XXI[Productivity in Portugal in the 21st Century]” (with Paulo Brito and Luís Costa)" in Bastien, C., Catroga, E. & Borges, M.R. (eds.) 111 Anos: Por onde andou e para onde vai a economia portuguesa [111 Years: Where has the Portuguese economy been and where is it going]. Coimbra: Almedina, pp. 573-611. · May 23, 2023


Policy Briefs

“Leaving a trade area can substantially reduce innovation and productivity.”

LSE Business Review, 2017.


Other Manuscripts

"Recommendations Systems: Beyond Matching Products to Buyers" (with Pedro Gardete) 

"No data? No problem! A Search-based Recommendation System with Cold Starts" (with Pedro Gardete) 

"An Aggregation Method for Large-Scale Dynamic Games"