Curriculum Vitae

Publications:

• "The effect of competition on retail price and assortment size decisions: theory and evidence",

with Fabio Caldieraro - Journal of Retailing (2025) - Accepted

• • Previously circulated as "Price and variety in supermarkets: Can store competition hurt consumers?"

• "Direct Sales and Bargaining",
  with Javier Donna, Yun Pu, Pedro Pereira & Renan Yoshida -  RAND Journal of Economics, 55: 749-787 (2024)  

• "Measuring the Welfare of Intermediaries",
  with Javier Donna, Pedro Pereira & Tiago Pires - Management Science, 68(11), pp.8083-8115 (2022) 

  • Award for Best Paper in "Market Competition", Portuguese Ministry of Economics (GEE)

• "The Role of Output Reallocation and Investment in Coordinating Externality Markets",

with Jose M. Abito, Chris Knittel & Konstantinos Metaxoglou - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 83, 102843 (2022)

• • Working Paper version: NBER WP w24481

  • Previously circulated as "Coordinating Separate Markets for Externalities"

  • Media coverage: [Public Policy Initiative]

• "Exporting global warming? Coal trade and the shale gas boom",

with Chris Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou & Anson Soderbery - Canadian Journal of Economics, 55(3), pp.1294-1333 (2022)

• Research Brief: [Link]

• "Environmental Implications of Market Structure: Shale Gas and Electricity Markets",

with Chris Knittel & Konstantinos Metaxoglou - International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 63, pp 511-550 (2019)

• • This is a substantial revision of NBER WP w21627 and MIT CEEPR WP-2015-013

  • Media coverage: [Washington Post]   [VoxEU]   [NBER Digest] 

  • IJIO Best Empirical Paper Award 2019

• "Ex-post evaluation of Mergers in the Supermarket Industry"  [online appendix],

with Tiago Pires, Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 52, Issue 3, pp 473–496 (2018) 

• Included in the FTC's "Merger Retrospective Studies Bibliography"

• "Who monitors the monitor? Effect of Party Observers on Electoral Outcomes"  [online appendix] [sample ballot], 

with Agustin Casas & Guillermo Diaz, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 145: 136–149 (2017)

• • Media coverage: [La Nacion]   [El Estadista]   [Radio La Latina]   [No Somos Nadie 95.1]

• "Surprise me if you can: Influence of Newspaper Endorsements on US Presidential Elections",

with Agustin Casas & Yarine Fawaz, Economic Inquiry,  Vol. 54 (3): 1484–1498 (2016)

• • Media coverage: [BBC News]   [The Conversation]   [Pacific Standard]   [NYMag]   [Washington Post]   [MinnPost]   [Dallas News]   [Sidney Morning Herald]   [Daily Kos]   [Europe1]   [Diario de Noticias]

• "Are we fracked? The impact of falling gas prices and the implications for coal-to-gas switching and carbon emissions",

with Chris Knittel & Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 32 (2): 241-259 (2016)

• • Research Brief: [Link]

Working Papers:

• "Household Income Shocks and Sustainable Products",

with Miguel A. Ferreira, Pedro Pires & Margarida Soares  - Jul 2025 

• • Presented at: ESCP Berlin

  • Working Paper version: CEPR DP No. 20465 

• "Pricing and Informality: Evidence from Energy Theft in Brazil", (R&R) Management Science

with Davi Resende, Gabriel Richter & Marcelo Sant'Anna  - Nov 2025

• [NEW] "Opening Hours and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from GPS Data and Deregulation",

with Javier Donna, Marit Hinnosaar & Toomas Hinnosaar  - Jul 2025

• • Media coverage: [VoxEU]  [Nada es Gratis]

  • Non-technical explainer (6 min): Youtube video

  • Working Paper version: CEPR DP No. 20409

• "Specific Investment and Contract Design: Evidence from Public Transportation",

with Guillermo Diaz, Kei Kawai & Gabriel Santamarina - new version soon

• • • Presented at: UNC-Chapel Hill, Santa Clara, USP, FGV-EESP, AEA, EARIE, IIOC, LACEA, PET, SBE, REAP-MOITA, and the IPEA Workshop on Public Procurement.

Book Chapters:

• "Demand for Public Transportation and the Design of Optimal Public Policies", in Infrastructure Investments: Politics, Barriers and Economic Consequences, Nova Science Publishers, 2017, with Leticia Klotz & Edmilson Varejâo

• "How are Consumer Choices Affected by Firm Competition”, in GAF Academy: Global Agribusiness Forum, Datagro Publicações Ltda., Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 163-170, 2014.