I have interest in science in general as well as economics. Two directions that I think are worth pursuing in economics are (1) the biological basis of economic behavior at the individual level, and (2) a statistical physics approach to aggregate economic phenomena.
Articles
Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?, Economics (2009)
I argue that it is microeconomics that needs foundations, not macroeconomics. Preferences need to be...
Bolhas Racionais no Indice Bovespa (with Mauricio Nunes), Revista Brasileira de Economia (2009)
We checked for the presence of rational bubbles in the São Paulo Stock Exchange index...
Going Parochial in the Assessment of the Brazilian Economics Research Output, Economics Bulletin (2009)
I evaluate the just launched official criterion for assessing the economics research output in Brazil,...
Ranking the Stocks Listed on Bovespa according to their Relative Efficiency (with Ricardo Giglio), Applied Mathematical Sciences (2009)
A methodology based on the algorithmic complexity theory has been applied to assess the relative...
Algorithmic Complexity Theory and the Relative Efficiency of Financial Markets (with Ricardo Giglio, Raul Matsushita, Annibal Figueiredo, and Iram Gleria), Europhysics Letters (2008)
Financial economists usually assess market efficiency in absolute terms. This is to be viewed as...
Books
Contributions to Books
Popular Press
Crisis, Imbalance, and Prospects for the Dollar, Currency Trader (2009)
One positive aspect of the financial crisis was the boost to the dollar. However, global...
Unpublished Papers
Biological Correlates of the Allais Paradox (with Dinorá Baldo and Raul Matsushita) (2009)
We conducted a questionnaire study with student subjects to look for explicit correlations between selected...
Risk-Seeking Behavior of Preschool Children in a Gambling Task (2008)
A recent neurobiology study showed that monkeys systematically prefer risky targets in a visual gambling...