Vinicius Carrasco

Department of Economics, PUC-Rio

Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225. Gávea.

22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil.

Phone: 55-21-3527-1078

Fax: 55-21-3527-1084

E-mail: vnc [at] econ [dot] puc-rio [dot] br

http://www.econ.puc-rio.br/~vnc

Education

2000-2005: Department of Economics, Stanford University

Ph.D. in Economics

Dissertation: Essays on Corporate Board Structure, Financial Syndication, and Organizational Structure.

Dissertation Committee: Susan Athey (Co-Principal Advisor), Jonathan Levin (Co-Principal Advisor), Ilya Segal

1998-2000: PUC-Rio

M.Sc. in Economics

1994-1997: UFRGS

B.A. in Economics

Positions

2005-Present: PUC-Rio

Assistant Professor of Economics

Papers

“Dividing and Discarding: A Procedure to take decisions with NTU” (joint with Willie Fuchs and Humberto Moreira)

“From Equals to Despots: The dynamics of repeated decision-making with private information” (joint with Willie Fuchs)

“Coordination and the Provision of Incentives to a Common Regulated Firm” (joint with Johann Caro. Forthcoming at the International Journal of Industrial Organization)

“ Repeated Lending Under Contractual Incompleteness” (joint with João M. P. De Mello. Annals of Finance, Vol. 3, N.1, 2010)

“Common Agency, Organizational Design and the Hold-Up Problem” (Economics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 3, 2010).    

“Coordinated Strategic Defaults and Financial Fragility in a Costly State Verification Model” (joint with Pablo Salgado)

“Outside Options and the Limiting Distribution of Power in Repeated Decision Taking” (joint with Johann Caro)

“A sticky-dispersed information Phillips Curve: A model with partial and delayed information” (joint with Waldyr Areosa and Marta Areosa)

Work in Progress

“Optimal Dynamic Regulation when Investment is non-contractible” (with Paulo Daniel Salles)

“Optimal Policies when information is sticky and dispersed” (joint with Waldyr Areosa and Marta Areosa)

“Robust Decision-Making” (joint with Humberto Moreira)

“How do players take joint actions? Experimental Evidence” (joint with Willie Fuchs, and Carmit Segal)

“Competing to Provide Incentives to a Privately Informed Agent”

Work in Portuguese

Bonomo, M, V. Carrasco and H. Moreira. “Inflationary Inertia, Evolutionary Learning, and Recessions”, Brazilian Review of Economics, vol.57(3): 663-681, 2003. (In Portuguese).

Antitrust Activities:

Defense of the Fidelization Program “Tô Contigo” on behalf of AMBEV.

Expert Witness Report on behalf of distributor COBRAÇO on a vertical foreclosure liability case against ARCELOR-MITTAL (former Siderúrgica Belgo-Mineira)

Expert Witness Report on behalf of Sindicato dos Construtores de Minas Gerais (SINDUSCON-MG) in the overprice litigation against the rebar cartel

Fellowships and Awards

PUC-Rio’s Research Grant, 2010-2012

PUC-Rio’s Research Grant, 2008-2010

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research: Dissertation Fellowship, 2005.

John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Stanford Law School: Summer Research Fellowship, 2004.

Economics Department, Stanford University: Outstanding Teaching Award (Graduate Level), 2003.

Economics Department, Stanford University: Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002.

Economics Department, Stanford University: Ph.D. Fellowship, 2000-2001.

Department of Economics, PUC-Rio: BBM Bank Fellowship for Academic Performance, 1999-2000.

Capes (Brazilian Government’s Agency for Graduate Studies): Master’s Fellowship, 1998-1999.

Department of Economics, UFRGS: Ranked First Among 65 Graduating Students.

Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ): Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 1995-1997.

Referee Services and Conferences:

American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Review of Brazilian Econometrics.

Co-Organizer of the 2010 Latin American Workshop in Economic Theory of the Econometric Sociey