Research, teaching and technology applied to public problems.
Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, economist and researcher in information systems, applied data science and digital transformation.
I work at the interface between Economics, Law, Information Systems and Public Administration, developing empirical research and applied projects based on public data.
Professor in the Information Systems programme at the Arapiraca Campus/Penedo Educational Unit; teaching in Tourism and Fisheries Engineering.
Judicial Analyst in Economics since 2014 and judicial adviser to trial judges since 2023.
Degrees in Law and Economics, MSc in Applied Economics and PhD in Economics; practised law from 2010 to 2014; registered economist.
Empirical projects with public data that return to the classroom as tools, dashboards and open datasets.
Personal academic website. Its content is not a statement, service or endorsement of UFAL or TJAL. Legal notice.
Public spending, education, agricultural prices and policy evaluation, cutting across Industrial and Organisational Economics — location and agglomeration of activities, firm structure and the design of public organisations.
Court decisions as data — moral damages, case duration, precedents, litigation patterns and the incentives rules create.
AI adoption in the public sector, productivity, governance and security controls; and the theme of Artificial Intelligence, Legality and Legal Decision-Making — under which conditions AI systems can support legitimate, auditable and human-supervised legal decisions.
Instant payments (Pix), platforms and digital services, data and data protection, cybersecurity and regulation — the economics of digital markets and the law that organises them.
International demand, connectivity, price competitiveness and territorial development.
Port shocks, regional resilience and the digitalisation of port processes.
Marine heatwaves, fishing effort, seasonal closures and marine protected areas.
Cross-cutting line — R, Python, SQL, spatial analysis, reproducible pipelines and decision-support systems.
A selection of ongoing work. Many projects are still in development and results may change after further validation.
Was the first official institutional adoption of AI followed by measurable aggregate productivity gains in the state courts?
Methodology: Court and year fixed effects; Staggered difference-in-differences (estimators robust to treatment heterogeneity)…
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Are the state courts adopting AI at the same pace at which they develop security, governance, data-protection and incident-response controls?
Methodology: Comparative document analysis across six dimensions: data governance; information-security policy; data-protection officer; impact assessment; incident response; AI regulation
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Which factors explain the value of moral damages awards and how much do decisions vary across similar cases?
Methodology: Text mining and variable extraction with manual validation; Regression models for award values and for dispersion
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When a port suffers a physical shutdown, can the trade network absorb the shock or does regional economic activity fall?
Methodology: Event studies and difference-in-differences; Trade-network analysis and PPML models
Did the Porto Sem Papel programme reduce port times and trade costs? What informational transformation did digitalisation produce?
Methodology: Staggered difference-in-differences and event studies; Stochastic frontier of port efficiency…
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How do marine heatwaves and changes in ocean productivity affect fishing effort along the Brazilian coast?
Methodology: Geospatial data cube (H3, Parquet/DuckDB); Cell-day panels with fixed effects and placebo tests
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Do seasonal bans and marine protected areas reduce fishing pressure or displace effort to neighbouring areas?
Methodology: Spatial difference-in-differences and placebo tests; Vessel-level decomposition to separate coverage changes from real activity changes
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What is the role of distance, air connectivity and price competitiveness in international tourism demand for Brazil?
Methodology: Gravity models estimated by PPML with fixed effects; Robustness checks with leave-one-out exclusion of origins
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Economics, law, data and technology to understand decisions, markets and territories.
Thematic series · 9 publications
Information goods, network effects, platforms, monetisation and regulation.
Thematic series · 10 publications
The sea as economic infrastructure for ports, routes, fisheries, the blue economy and information systems.
I teach at UFAL Penedo in the Information Systems programme and also in Tourism and Fisheries Engineering. The classroom is where concepts turn into concrete questions: Fisheries Economics opened a permanent research front, Tourism strengthened the interest in territorial development, and the subjects connecting Law, Economics and technology drive the jurimetrics and digital-government projects.
More about teachingEditorial archive by semester with the outreach pieces, thematic series and the editorial policy.
Science outreachPublic service examinations (concursos públicos) are part of my trajectory, both as a candidate and as a civil servant. I passed eight competitive selections for economist, professor, judicial analyst and municipal attorney positions, three of them in first place, and I was also certified in the National Judiciary Examination (ENAM). I still sit public examinations and follow calls, examination boards and the structuring of public careers, which keeps alive my interest in evaluation, management and personnel policy in the public sector.
Initiatives of the author outside his institutional roles. None of them is an official system of UFAL or TJAL.
Free animal-protection platform
Final refinement phase before launch · Founder and investing partner
Territorial intelligence for municipal education
Prototype under development; competing in the Centelha programme · Founder and investing partner
Judgment liquidation with an auditable calculation memory
Prototype under development · Founder and investing partner
Access to justice in small-claims courts
Prototype under development · Founder and investing partner
I welcome academic collaboration, interdisciplinary projects and institutional partnerships that use public data to answer concrete questions.
I write weekly on LinkedIn about these areas — applied economics, jurimetrics, AI in the public sector, tourism, ports and fisheries — in short pieces for non-specialists. Follow on LinkedIn(opens in a new tab)
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