WORKING PAPERS

Consumers as Tax Auditors  (Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review)

awards: Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award – Public Sector Economics, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Award,  Young Scholar Prize – Research on Business Taxation, Oxford University

media coverage: The Economist, World Bank Blog and Bloomberg Business Week

 

PUBLICATIONS

Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil. The Journal of Economic History. 2012; 72(2): 393-422 (with Soares R. and Assunção J.).

media coverage: Salon and Marginal Revolution

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Type of colonisation and Latin American development. In: Michalopoulos, Stelios and Elias Papaioannou (eds.), The Long Economic Shadow of History, Vol 3, CEPR VOX E-book, 2017.

Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors. In: Tella RD, Edwards and S, Ernesto Schargrodsky (eds.) The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America. Vol. 0-226-15374-6 . University of Chicago Press; 2010. p. 19 – 55 (with Soares, R.).

 

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

Unemployment Insurance and Consumption in a Context of High Informality (with François Gerard).

Who Chooses to Sell to the Government? Screening and Barriers to Entry in Brazilian Public Procurement (with Michael Best, Evan Kresch, Alexandre de Oliveira & Laura Zoratto)