Hello! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva’s Institute of Economics and Econometrics. My research interests are in Environmental and Resource Economics and Industrial Organization.

I will join the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in 2022.

Publications

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. Global Environmental Change. 71:102383. (paper)

An econometric analysis of the Brazilian merger policy

Diego S. Cardoso, Mariusa M. Pitelli, and Adelson M. Figueiredo. 2021. Review of Industrial Organization. 59, 103–132. (paper)

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. (paper) (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. (paper)(code)

Working Papers

Optimal carbon taxation under oligopoly: An application to commercial aviation

Diego S. Cardoso. (Job Market Paper) (abstract)

Water Affordability in the United States

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

A practical approach to estimate the benefits of non-marginal mortality risk reductions using the Value of a Statistical Life

Diego S. Cardoso and Ricardo Dahis. (abstract)

Work in progress

Fuel cost pass-through in commercial aviation

Climate policy under uncertain post-tipping warming

Oil & gas lobbying and climate policy, with Julien Daubanes and Saraly Andrade de Sá