Address:
Departamento de Economia
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Rua dos Economistas s/n, Cidade Universitária
Recife, Pernambuco,
50670-901, Brazil
email: rafael.costalima <at> ufpe.br
I work (mainly) on Microeconomic theory, with a focus on Political Economy and Industrial Organization.
My old homepage, https://sites.google.com/site/costalimarafael/ will no longer be updated.
Working Papers
The Microeconomics of Buy now, pay later (with João Correia da Silva). R&R at The Journal of Industrial Economics
Information alliance in common agency (with Humberto Moreira, Dongsoo Shin, and Alexander Rodivilov). R&R at Economic Theory
Infinitely repeated cheap talk (with Paulo Melo-Filho). New version coming soon
Lobbying against accountability: campaign spending and media capture (with Vinicius Tiné).
Published Papers
Vertical restraints, information transmission, and common agency. Accepted for publication at Brazilian Review of Econometrics
Broadband Internet and Protests: Evidence from the Occupy Movement (with Guilherme Amorim and Breno Sampaio) Information Economics and Policy, 60 (2022), article 100982,
Compulsory voting and TV News consumption (with Raphael Bruce) Journal of Development Economics, 138 (2019) 165-179.
Centralized decision making and informed lobbying (with Humberto Moreira and Thierry Verdier) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 9 (2017), v4.
Information transmission and inefficient lobbying (with Humberto Moreira) Games and Economic Behavior, 86 (2014).