Liu, T., Vergara Cobos, E., & Zhou, Y. (2019). Pricing schemes and seller fraud: Evidence from New York City taxi rides. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 67(1), 56–90.
Vergara Cobos, E. (2024). Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets. Washington, DC: The World Bank Group.
Vergara Cobos, E., & Malasquez, E. A. (2023). Growth and Transformative Effects of ICT Adoption: A Survey. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
Vergara Cobos, E., & Malasquez, E. A. (2025). The welfare effects of telecom competition in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank (under review).
(Earlier version circulated as “Welfare effects of competition in the mobile telecommunication sector in Africa: a multi-country analysis”, 2021.)Foster, V., Vergara Cobos, E., Oughton, E., Cantu, C., & Calderon, C. A. (2023). The Social Rate of Return of Mobile Broadband Infrastructure Investment. Available at SSRN.
Vergara Cobos, E. B. (2020). Learning from Disruption: The New York City Taxicab Market Case (Doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook).
Blog Posts
Vergara Cobos, E. (2024). From fiction to reality: How Latin America became the world’s most critical cyber battleground. World Bank Blogs. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/latinamerica/seguridad-cibernetica-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe
Background notes and early research
Vergara Cobos, E. (2021). High Broadband Prices and Limited Offerings Constraining Data Use by SMEs. Unpublished background note, The World Bank, Washington, DC.
Vergara Cobos, E. (2018). The disappearance of the multiple equilibria problem in entry games (working paper).
Vergara Cobos, E. (2014). An Inspection Espionage Game. Repositorio Senescyt.