Research
Publications
13 papers
2025
From Association to Explanation: Strengthening Research Design and Causal Reasoning in Accounting Scholarship
Forthcoming Advances in Scientific and Applied Accounting (ASAA)
Discusses how accounting studies can move from associational evidence toward causal explanations through stronger research design, identification strategies, and clearer claims.
Economic conditions and voting behavior
Forthcoming Public Choice
Examines how local economic conditions shape electoral choices, connecting economic performance and shocks to voting patterns.
Assessing political bias and value misalignment in generative artificial intelligence
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Tests whether generative AI systems express political preferences or value profiles that diverge from different groups of users.
Covered by various news outlets worldwide — including the Telegraph, Times of India, and Estadão.
Natural disasters and financial technology adoption
Economics Letters
Studies whether exposure to natural disasters changes demand for digital financial services and accelerates fintech adoption.
2024
Government, taxation and economic complexity
Applied Economics Letters, 1–5.
Investigates how government activity and tax structures relate to the economic complexity of countries and regions.
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias
Public Choice, 198(1), 3–23.
Measures the political orientation of ChatGPT responses and compares model outputs with patterns observed in human survey data.
Covered by almost 170 pieces of news coverage within the first five days after publication — including the Washington Post, Telegraph, and Forbes.
2022
Bonus for firearms seizures and police performance
Economics Letters
Evaluates whether performance-based bonuses for firearm seizures affect police behavior and public safety outcomes.
Economic complexity and corporate governance
Applied Economics Letters
Explores the relationship between the sophistication of local economies and firm-level corporate governance practices.
2021
On the determinants of a stable long-run relationship between energy consumption and economic growth
Economics and Policy of Energy and Environment
Analyzes whether energy use and economic growth share a stable long-run relationship and what drives that connection.
2019
A influência do nível de transparência da gestão pública na quantidade de disclosure informacional dos municípios capixabas
Revista Mineira de Contabilidade
Studies whether municipal transparency is associated with the amount of public-sector information disclosed by local governments.
2018
Corrupção e valor de mercado: os efeitos da Operação Lava Jato sobre o mercado de ações no Brasil
Revista Catarinense da Ciência Contábil
Examines how corruption revelations during Operation Car Wash affected stock market valuation among Brazilian firms.
2017
O que se tem pesquisado sobre Sustentabilidade Empresarial e sua Evidenciação?
Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade
Reviews the research landscape on corporate sustainability and the disclosure of sustainability-related information.
2016
Relação entre desigualdade de renda e crescimento econômico nos municípios brasileiros: o que mudou na década 2000–2010?
Contextus – Revista Contemporânea de Economia e Gestão
Revisits the relationship between income inequality and economic growth across Brazilian municipalities during the 2000–2010 decade.
Working Papers
7 manuscripts
2026
O Brasileiro trabalha menos do que deveria?
Discusses Brazilian working hours in comparative perspective, separating evidence on labor supply from common claims in the public debate.
Nota de Política Pública: Quanto de produtividade precisamos para reduzir a jornada de trabalho?
Estimates the productivity gains needed to reduce working time without lowering output or income.
Masking the identification problem: how time aggregation manufactures cross-country evidence — A comment on Tausk & Spira (2025), BMC Public Health
R&R Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics
Shows how aggregating time can create misleading cross-country evidence and obscure identification problems in public health research.
Como medir o invisível? Guerras, pizzarias do Pentágono e o uso de variáveis proxy em econometria
Explains how proxy variables can help measure otherwise invisible phenomena, while highlighting the risks of weak or misleading proxies.
Regulatory Simplification, Formalization, and Local Economic Activity: Evidence from Brazil
Submitted
Estimates how simplifying local regulation affects firm formalization and economic activity in Brazilian municipalities.
2024
Charting New Territory: Using ChatGPT to Enhance Survey Instruments for Management Accounting Research
Explores how ChatGPT can support the design, refinement, and stress-testing of survey instruments in management accounting.
2023
Virtual learning, real effects: Does delivery mode influence students' attainment?
R&R Journal of the Knowledge Economy
Estimates whether online and in-person course delivery lead to different student attainment outcomes.
Work in Progress
3 projects
Do Health Policy Conclusions Survive Modern DiD? Re-estimating TWFE Studies
Revisits influential health-policy studies that used TWFE difference-in-differences methods and tests whether conclusions hold with modern DiD estimators.
Armed Factions and Local Electoral Competition: Evidence from Metropolitan Rio de Janeiro
Studies how the presence of armed factions in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro shapes local electoral competition and political behavior.
Seed-IV: Using Seeds to Randomize Text Characteristics in LLM Models
Uses random seeds as a source of variation in LLM-generated text to study how text characteristics affect downstream outcomes.