The Pandemic Shock and the Heterogenous Responses for Durable versus Non-durable Industries. (w/ L. Stelzer-Rossi), Economics Bulletin 2024.
Optimal taxation of informal firms: Misreporting Costs and a tax reform in Brazil (w/ M. Arbex and R. Regatieri). BEJ Macro, 2023.
Do lower taxes reduce the size of the firms? Evidence from micro-entrepreneurs in Brazil. (w/ M. Nascimento). Economics Letters, 2023.
Is tax evasion macho? Testosterone, peronsality traits and evasion, Economic and Political Studies (w/ M. Arbex, J. Carré and S. Geniole), 2022.
The Effects of Health Spending on the Propagation of Infectious Diseases, Health Economics (w/ M. Castro and F. Patriota), 2021.
Public input and business tax competition in local communities in Brazil Annals of Regional Science (w/ R. Politi and E. Piccin), 2021.
Measuring Fiscal Spillovers in Brazilian Municipalities, Public Finance Review (w/ M. Castro), 2021.
Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: evidence from non district elections , European Jornal of Political Economy (w/ R. Politi and R. Morata), 2021.
Optimal Paternalistic Health and Human Capital Subsidy. Economics Letters, 2019, v. 176, pp 39-42 (w/ M. Arbex).
Assessing the impact of `More Doctors`Program on healthcare indicators in Brazil . World Development, v.123, Article 104617 , 2019 (w/ Debora Mazetto).
Wages, Informality, and Net Fiscal Benefit in a Federation Evaluating Intergovernmental Grants in Brazilian Municipalities. w/ Ricardo Politi, Public Finance Review, v46, p. 486-513, 2018.
Accountability and yardstick competition in the public provision of education, Journal of Urban Economics (w/ Rafael Terra), v 99, ppp 15-30, 2017.
Grants and dispersion of local education spending in Brazil, Regional Studies (w/ Ricardo Politi and Afonso Yamaguchi), v.1, pp1-17, 2017.
Nature of transfers, income tax function and empirical estimation of elasticity of taxable income for Brazil. Applied Economics, 2016. (w/ Rafael Terra).
Optimal Sales Tax Rebates and Tax Enforcement Consumers. Oxford Economic Papers, v. 67, p. 479-493, 2015 (w/Marcelo Arbex).
Welfare and Inequality with Hard-to-Tax Markets. FinanzArchiv, v. 71, p. 285-293, 2015. (w/ Marcelo Arbex and Laudo Ogura).
Municipalities secession, median voter, public good provision. Economics Bulletin, v. 35, p. 198-203, 2015.(w/ Paulo Arvate and Vladimir Ponczek)
Altruism and participation costs in local redistribution: Empirical evidence for Brazilian municipalities. International Journal of Social Economics,, Vol. 40 Iss: 5, pp.392 - 438, 2013 (with Rafael Terra).
Pro-poor tax policy and yardstick competition: a spatial investigation for VAT relief on food in Brazil. The Annals of Regional Science v. 52, p. 279-307, 2013.(w/ Ricardo Politi).
Education Production Efficiency: Evidence from Brazilian Universities. Economic Modelling v. 31, p. 94-103, 2013. (with Ana Zoghbi and Fabiana Rocha).
Poverty, Informality and the Optimal General Income Tax Policy. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy v. 12, p. 1-20, 2012. (with Marcelo Arbex and Christian Trudeau).
Ad-valorem tax incidence and after-tax price adjustments: Evidence from Brazilian basic food basket. Canadian Journal of Economics, v. 4, p. 1438-1470, 2011 (with Ricardo Politi).
Public employment and income redistribution: Causal evidence for Brazilian municipalities. Public Choice, v. 146, p. 43-73, 2011. (with Vitor França).
On the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers. Journal of Economic Studies (Bradford), v. 38, p. 577-603, 2011. (with Lucas Duarte and Juliana Serillo).
Information matrix test: An application using the original Pareto´s income distribution data. Journal of Income Distribution, v. 19, p. 20-32, 2010. (with Vladimir Ponczek).
Skill differentiation between formal and informal employment. Journal of Economic Studies (Bradford), v. 36, p. 461-480, 2009. (with Laudo Ogura)
Median Voter, Size of the Government and Budget Spillover: Evidence for US states. Applied Economics Letters v. 16, p. 1387-1392, 2009.
Institutions and Economic Volatility: Democracy versus Risk of Expropriation.. Journal of Economic Studies (Bradford), v. 35, p. 184-194, 2009 (with Vladimir Ponczek).
Inequality and size of government: Evidence for Brazilian states. Journal of Economic Studies (Bradford), v. 35, p. 333-351, 2008. (with Fabiana Rocha).
Monte Carlo Properties of spatial dependence LM tests. Applied Economics Letters v. 13, p. 905-910, 2006.(with Pablo Acosta and Ana Fava).
Conditional Cash Transfers, Public Provision of Private Goods, and Income Redistribution. American Economic Review v. 97, p. 492-501, 2007. (with Firouz Gahvari).