Hello! I am a PhD candidate at Cornell University’s Dyson School. My research interests are in Environmental and Resource Economics and Industrial Organization.

I will join the Institute of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Geneva as a postdoctoral researcher during the Fall 2021 term. In Spring 2022, I will join the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor.

Working Papers

Optimal carbon taxation under oligopoly: An application to commercial aviation

Diego S. Cardoso. (Job Market Paper) (read more)

Water Affordability in the United States

Diego S. Cardoso and Casey J. Wichman. (R&R) (working paper) (read more)

Value of a Statistical Life under Large Mortality Risk Change: Theory and an Application to COVID-19

Diego S. Cardoso and Ricardo Dahis. (R&R) (working paper) (read more)

Reduced river discharge under climate change impairs electricity generation and the economic feasibility of future Amazon hydropower

Rafael M. Almeida, Ayan S. Fleischmann, João P. F. Brêda, Diego S. Cardoso, Hector Angarita, Walter Collischonn, Alexander S. Flecker, Bruce Forsberg, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Carla Gomes, Phillip M. Hannam, Stephen K. Hamilton, Rodrigo Paiva, N. LeRoy Poff, Suresh Sethi, and Qinru Shi (Under review) (read more)

Work in progress

Fuel cost pass-through in commercial aviation

Climate policy under uncertain post-tipping warming

Publications

An econometric analysis of the Brazilian merger policy

Diego S. Cardoso, Mariusa M. Pitelli, and Adelson M. Figueiredo. Forthcoming. Review of Industrial Organization (read more)

An agent-based platform for the study of watersheds as coupled natural and human systems

Leigh Tesfatsion, Chris R. Rehmann, Diego S. Cardoso, Yu Jie, and William J. Gutowski. 2017. Environmental Modelling & Software. 89: 40-60. (pre-print) (code)

A Digital Notebook in school laptops: concept and tool development

(In Portuguese) Diego S. Cardoso and Cecília Baranauskas. 2009. Brazilian Journal of Computers in Education. 7: 59-73. (code)