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Working papers and Working in progress:

• Competition, Productivity, and Resource misallocation in High-Friction Economies

• Effects of Patent Infringements on Innovation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Brazil 

• Knowledge Diffusion by Imported Innovative goods: evidence from Brazil (working in progress)

• Life Cycle Dynamics of Firms and Resource Misallocation in Brazil (joint with João Pedro Cavalcanti)

Published papers:

• Misallocation in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, vol. 37(2), November, 2017.  

  • Media coverage (in portuguese): Valor economico, Valor economico, Nexo , Nexo

Other publications and retired papers

• Vasconcelos, R.; Vaz, P.. A literatura sobre misallocation In: O desafio da Produtividade. Fabio Giambiagi e José Ronaldo de Castro Souza Júnior (org.). 1 ed , 2024, v.1, p. 100-130.

• Pandemia pode impulsionar inovação, mas dinheiro e mão de obra são desafios, Opinion article, UOL, July, 2021.

• Para economistas, auxílio permanente de R$ 400 desrespeita lei de gastos, article, UOL, November, 2021.

• The Role of Resource Misallocation in Structural Change (joint with Vladimir Teles)

• Expectations and firm dynamics: Aggregate versus idiosyncratic shocks in emerging economies (Joint with Marcelo Eduardo da Silva and P Vaz), 2022