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Roberto Pinheiro
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Roberto B. Pinheiro

Senior Research Economist
Areas of Expertise skills and labor productivity, spatial distribution of economic activity, information and market design
Department Research
Education
  • BA,
  • Economics,
  • Universidade de São Paulo,
  • 2001
  • MA,
  • Economics,
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro ,
  • 2003
  • PhD,
  • Economics,
  • University of Pennsylvania,
  • 2009

Roberto Pinheiro is a senior research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is an active researcher in labor markets, urban economics, the economics of organizations, and corporate finance. His research has been published in leading economic journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, and International Economic Review.

Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in 2015, Dr. Pinheiro was an assistant professor of finance at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dr. Pinheiro received a BA in economics from University of São Paulo. He holds an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MA in economics from the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro.

Featured Publications

  • “Spatial Sorting.” With J. R. Eeckhout and K. Schmidheiny. Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(3): 554–620.
  • “Diverse Organizations and Competition for Talent.” With J. R. Eeckhout. International Economic Review, 2014, 55(3): 625–664.
  • “Unemployment Risk and Wage Differentials.” With L. Visschers. Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 157: 397–424.
  • “Health Insurance as a Productive Factor.” With A. Dizioli. Labour Economics, 2016, 40: 1–24.

  • “Information and Inequality in the Time of a Pandemic.” With Allan Dizioli. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021: 130, 104202.

  • “Labor Market Competition over the Business Cycle.” With Daniel Monte. Economic Inquiry, 2021: 59 (4), 1593–1615

  • “Information Production and the Duration of Accounting Fraud.” With Jonathan Black, Mattias Nilsson, and Maximiliano da Silva. Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting, 2021: 6 (2), 263–314.

  • “Rival Growth Prospects and Equity Prices: Evidence from Mass Layoff Announcements.” With Adam Bordeman and Bharadwaj Kannan. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2021: 53 (8), 1969–1997.

  • “Venture Capital and Underpricing: Capacity Constraints and Early Sales.” Annals of Finance, 2018, 14(1), 1–47

  • “Spatial Sorting.” With J. R. Eeckhout and K. Schmidheiny. Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(3): 554–620.

  • “Diverse Organizations and Competition for Talent.” With J. R. Eeckhout. International Economic Review, 2014, 55(3): 625–664.

  • “Unemployment Risk and Wage Differentials.” With L. Visschers. Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 157: 397–424.

  • “CEOs in Family Firms: Does Junior Know What He’s Doing?” With C. Yung. Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015, 33: 345–361.

  • “Health Insurance as a Productive Factor.” With A. Dizioli. Labour Economics, 2016, 40: 1–24.

  • “Inequality Is an Urban Affair, and It’s Due to New Tech.” With Jan Eeckhout and Christoph Hedtrich. VoxEu.org, 2021. https://voxeu.org/article/inequality-urban-affair-and-it-s-due-new-tech

  • “Review of SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.” Academy of Management Perspectives, 2011, 25 (2): 86–87.

  • “Banking System Concentration: Problems and Possibilities in Sight” (in Portuguese). FIPE's Information Bulletin, 2000, 237: 23–25.