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Contact: d.m.a.barreto(at)uva.nl


Hi! My name is Daniel and I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

I'm a microeconomic theorist interested mainly in the fields of information economics, behavioral economics and political economics.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Sciences Po in 2023, advised by Eduardo Perez-Richet.



Working Papers

Abstract: We study how to optimally segment a monopolistic market given a redistributive objective. Optimal redistributive segmentations (i) induce the seller to price progressively, i.e., richer consumers pay higher prices than poorer ones, and (ii) may require giving a higher profit than uniform pricing if the redistributive motive is strong. We further show that optimal redistributive segmentations are implementable via price-based regulation.

Abstract: We study a persuasion problem in which a sender designs an information structure to induce a non-Bayesian receiver to take a particular action. The receiver, who is privately informed about his preferences, is a wishful thinker: he is systematically overoptimistic about the most favorable outcomes. We show that wishful thinking can lead to a qualitative shift in the structure of optimal persuasion compared to the Bayesian case, whenever the sender is uncertain about what the receiver perceives as the best-case outcome in his decision problem.



Work in Progress