Research

Articles


Information and vaccine hesitancy: the role of broadband Internet - with Mattia Nardotto, Carol Propper and Tommaso Valletti, Health Economics (2024) https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4856.


Productivity and HGEs: resilience and potential recovery from COVID-19 pandemic - with Mercedes Teruel, Alex Coad, Peter Bauer, Clemens Domnick, Peter Harasztosi, and Rozalia Pal, Industry and Innovation (2023) DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2023.2236565 

Consensus and ideology in courts: an Application to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council - with Lucia dalla Pellegrina and Nuno Garoupa, Review of Law & Economics (2023), https://doi.org/10.1515/rle-2022-0084. 

Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?, with Mattia Nardotto, Carol Propper and Tommaso Valletti, Review of Economics and Statistics (2022),104 (6): 1157–1173. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01033 .


Investment expectations by vulnerable European firms in times of COVID: a difference-in-difference approach -with Alex Coad, Peter Bauer, Clemens Domnick, Peter Harasztosi, Rozalia Pal, and Mercedes Teruel, Eurasian Business Review (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-022-00218-z, EIB Working Paper 2022/04.

Current Drug Repurposing Strategies for Rare Neurodegenerative Disorders, with Sweta Shah, Marc Marie Dooms and Mariana Igoillo-Esteve, Frontiers in Pharmacology 12:768023 (2021), https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.768023.

Exploring Dissent in the Supreme Court of Argentina - with Alejandro Chehtman, Nuno Garoupa and Sergio Muro -  International Review of Law & Economics  63 (2020). 

Medical Malpractice Appeals in a Civil Law System: Do Administrative and Civil Courts Award Non-Economic Damages Differently?, Law & Society Review 53(2): 386-419 (2019). 

Judicial Behavior and Devolution at the Privy Council, Review of Law & Economics 13(3): (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rle-2015-0013, with Nuno Garoupa.

Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence from Italy, Health Economics 24(9): 1050-1064 (2015) with Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi.

Do Administrative Courts Favor the Government? Evidence from Medical Malpractice in Spain, Journal of European Tort Law 6(3): 241-259 (2015), with Nuno Garoupa.

Curb your Premium! The Impact of Monitoring Medical Malpractice Claims, Health Policy 114(2): 139-146 (2014), with Veronica Grembi.

Judicial Independence and Party Politics in Constitutional Courts: The Case of Portugal, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 6(2): 381–404 (2009), with Nuno Garoupa and Veronica Grembi.


Work in Progress & Working Papers

Transparency and competition for influence - with Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò and Mattia Nardotto.

High-Growth Enterprises in times of COVID: an overview - with Alex Coad, Peter Bauer, Clemens Domnick, Peter Harasztosi, Rozalia Pal, and Mercedes Teruel.

Medical Device Companies and Doctors: Do Their Interactions Affect Medical Treatments?,  University of York, Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Paper 22/10.

Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies.


Chapters in edited volumes

Administrative Courts, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Jürgen Backhaus (Ed.), Springer (2015), DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_578-1.

Comparative Administrative Law & Economics, with Nuno Garoupa, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (2020), Chapter 11: 217-231, in Peter Cane, Herwig Hofmann, Eric Ip, and Peter Lindseth (eds).


Other Publications & Policy Briefs

How the internet is changing the demand for healthcare, with Mattia Nardotto, Carol Propper and Tommaso Valletti at VOX EU/CEPR (2020).

How to strengthen European industries’ leadership in vaccine research and innovation, with Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont and Michel Goldman at VOX EU/CEPR (2020).

Enhancing judicial efficiency to foster economic activity in Portugal, with Y. Jin, OECD Economics Department Working Papers (2019), No. 1567, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Medical Malpractice Appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court, in "Law and Economics. A Productive Relationship", FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies 8, Juan Jose Ganuza and Fernando Gómez (Eds). 

El Tribunal Supremo y los casos por negligencias médicas en España, Papeles de Economía Española, N.º 151, pp 21-32, 2017, ``Economía y Derecho'',  Juan Jose Ganuza and Fernando Gómez (Eds). 

Hospital-level policy can affect physician behavior and reduce C-section rates, with Paola Bertoli, Jana Friedrichsen and Veronica Grembi, DIW Wochenbericht 43/2016

- German version: Haftpflichtregelungen auf Krankenhausebene können ärztliches Handeln beeinflussen und Kaiserschnittraten senken

Daño moral derivado de lesiones, pp. 393-433, in "El Daño Moral y su cuantificación", Gómez-Pomar and Marin Garcìa (Eds), Bosch (2015).

 Un’analisi economica della negligenza medico-ospedaliero, with Veronica Grembi, Chapter 1, in “Le Responsabilità nei Servizi Sanitari – Profili Giuridici, Economici, Clinici e Comparatistici”, Massimo Franzoni (Eds), Zanichelli (2011) – in Italian.

A Justiça Cível em Portugal: Uma Perspectiva Quantitativa, with Nuno Garoupa and Guilherme Vilaça, Fundação Luso-Americana (2008) – in Portuguese.

Algumas Notas Sobre a Governança Judiciária: Uma Análise Comparativa dos Conselho Superior da Magistratura, Conselho Superior dos Tribunais Administrativos e Fiscais e o Consejo General del Poder Judicial, with Nuno Garoupa, JULGAR (2007) – in Portuguese.

Organização do Poder Judicial e Desenvolvimento Económico – A Relação de Causalidade e os Novos Desafios, with Nuno Garoupa, Revista do Conselho Superior da Magistratura (2007) – in Portuguese.