I am an Associate Professor at Economics Department of The Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil)

My research is on applied contract theory with particular interest to lobbying, political economy and industrial organization. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Vice President of the Brazilian Econometric Society.

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C.V. (Português) (Lattes)

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Working Papers

Vertical restraints, common agency and information transmission [pdf]

This paper studies how information asymmetries affect incentives in vertical chains. Information transmission affects incentives in different retailing structures and in the presence of Resale Price Maintenance and Two-part Tariff contracts.

Published Papers

Information transmission and inefficient lobbying (joint with Humberto Moreira) Games and Economic Behavior, 86 (2014).

Centralized decision making and informed lobbying (joint with Humberto Moreira and Thierry Verdier) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 9 (2017), v4.

Compulsory voting and T.V. News consumption (joint with Raphael Bruce) Journal of Development Economics, 138 (2019) 165-179.

Broadband Internet and Protests: Evidence from the Occupy Movement (joint with Guilherme Amorim e Breno Sampaio) [pdf] Information Economics and Policy, 60 (2022), article 100982,

Work in Progress

Credit Requirement Policies and banking spreads (with Francisco Monteiro)

From information to influence (with Paulo Guilherme Melo-Filho)

Campaign spending, media bias, and political accountability (with Vinicius Tiné)

Violence and repression in illegal markets with vertical chains (with Gilberto Nogueira e Paulo Melo-Filho)

The electoral consequences of protests (with Caio de Holanda)

Teaching and study material (in Portuguese)

Notas de estudo produzidas para concurso de professor efetivo do departamento de economia da UFPE de 2014.

Rafael Costa Lima' webpage, rafael.costalima@ufpe.br