Vinicius Carrasco
Department of Economics, PUC-Rio
Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225. Gávea.
22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
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,
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)
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,
Economics Department,
Economics Department,
Economics Department,
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