Rodrigo Carril

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). My fields of interest are Public Economics and Industrial Organization. I received my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in June 2020. For more information, please see my CV.

Publications

Working Papers

Rules Versus Discretion in Public Procurement

Job Market Paper. Claire and Ralph Landau Prize 2020 (best student-written SIEPR working paper). Young Economists' Essay Award 2022 (EARIE).

Current draft: February 2022
Revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association

[BSE Working Paper #1232]


Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

(with Andres Gonzalez-Lira and Michael S. Walker)

Current draft: October 2022
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review

[BSE Working Paper #1327]


Drivers of Public Procurement Prices: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

(with Claudia Allende, José Ignacio Cuesta, Juan Pablo Atal, and Andres Gonzalez-Lira)

Current draft: December 2023
Revise and resubmit, International Journal of Industrial Organization


The Impact of Preference Programs in Public Procurement: Evidence from Veteran Set-Asides

(with Audrey Guo)

Current draft: December 2023

Work in Progress

Centralized Procurement: the Role of Scale, Selection, and Variety

(with Claudia Allende, José Ignacio Cuesta, Juan Pablo Atal, and Andres Gonzalez-Lira)


A Price Index for Big G

(with Manuel García-Santana)


Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Mismeasured Assignment Variable

(with Andres Gonzalez-Lira)

Preliminary. Current draft: February 2022