Economics · Rio de Janeiro

Pedro Hemsley

I'm a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

I work on contract theory, game theory, and microeconomics more broadly.

Pedro Hemsley

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Research

Publications

  1. Geographic Heterogeneity and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Brazil

    With Juliano Assunção and Arthur Bragança

    Land Economics, 2019

  2. Risk Sharing Contracts with Private Information and One-Sided Commitment

    With Vinicius Carrasco and Eduardo Zilberman

    Economic Theory, 2019

Working papers

  1. Dynamic Moral Hazard with Self-Enforcing Incentive Payments

    Previously circulated as “Relational Contracts under Risk Aversion: The Moral Hazard Case”

  2. Weakening Environmental Enforcement and Homicides: Evidence from Indigenous Territories in Brazil

    With Victor Libera and Romero Rocha

  3. A Soap Opera and Local Economic Activity: Evidence from Jalapão, Brazil

    With Felipe Ramos

  4. Talking democrats, loyal partisans: when opinion polls fail to warn of democratic rupture

    With Marcio Firmo

Work in progress

  • Acquirers as competitors in the credit market
  • Signaling under affect labeling
  • On the monotonicity of the value function in repeated moral hazard
  • Biased beliefs as a public goods problem

GPEQ — Quantitative Economics Research Group
Institute of Economics · UFRJ

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CV

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Teaching

Course materials and supervision guidance in English and Portuguese.

Contact

pedro.hemsley@ie.ufrj.br

Institute of Economics · UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil