# Ricardo A. Pasquini

> Economist, Professor, and Researcher. Causal inference, econometrics, and the economics of digital markets. Associate Professor at Universidad Austral and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; founder of Beta Sigma.

## Key pages
- [About](https://ricardopasquini.com/about/): background, affiliations, research interests
- [Publications](https://ricardopasquini.com/publications/): working papers, refereed publications, previous work by topic
- [Teaching](https://ricardopasquini.com/teaching-docencia/): courses taught
- [Blog](https://ricardopasquini.com/blog/): notes on econometrics, causal inference, DeFi, and data science
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## Working papers
- Optimal allocation of limited funds in quadratic funding (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4176411)
- Quadratic Funding and Matching Funds Requirements (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3702318)
- Security Audits in DeFi (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4938357)
- Subsidized government credits and households' financial distress: Estimating the effect of Créditos Argenta (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vPB89DdZd5WmXnirv1FPwYqOAA3UshCv/view?usp=sharing)
- The Economics of DeFi Lending: A Model of Smart Contract Parameter Choice (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5193219)
- Transcending census boundaries: Using user-generated geographic information to predict gentrification and displacement (https://www.dropbox.com/s/fw8bac2p0zhprk3/Twitter Presentation Big Data and Neighborhood Change Conference.pdf?dl=0)

## Refereed publications
- 2010. On the Estimation of the Cost of Equity in Latin America (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566014110000415)
- 2016. Corporate Credit Spreads and the Sovereign Ceiling in Latin America. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1540496X.2016.1174853)
- 2019. Matching in Entrepreneurial Finance Networks (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691066.2018.1457474?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=tvec20)
- 2021. Effects of Regulating the Brokerage Commission in the Rental Market: Geographic RD Evidence from Buenos Aires (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1051137721000437)
- 2021. Impact of Accelerators, as Education & Training Programs, on Female Entrepreneurs (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/erj-2020-0306/html)
- 2021. What causes social entrepreneurship? Emancipation as an explanatory framework. (https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12045)
- 2023. Do land use regulations help give rise to informal settlements? Evidence from Buenos Aires (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837722005117)

## Recent blog posts
- Causal Inference in the Courtroom: First Results from a Systematic Review (https://ricardopasquini.com/causal-inference-in-the-courtroom-first-results-from-a-systematic-review/)
- Econometrics with simulations 📚 (https://ricardopasquini.com/econometrics-with-simulations/)
- Note on the Impact of Liquidation on Health Factor in Overcollateralized Loans (https://ricardopasquini.com/the-impact-of-liquidation-on-health-factor-in-overcollateralized-loans/)
- Explicando Inferencia por Aleatorización a un futbolero (https://ricardopasquini.com/explicando-inferencia-por-aleatorizacion-a-un-futbolero/)
- Optimal calibration of a ML classifier based on business knowledge (https://ricardopasquini.com/2364-2/)
- Note on AMMs "picked-off" risk (https://ricardopasquini.com/note-on-amms-picked-off-risk/)
- Un atlas de deudas para Argentina (https://ricardopasquini.com/un-atlas-de-deudas-para-argentina/)
- Bienes públicos, Gitcoin, y  financiamiento cuadrático (https://ricardopasquini.com/bienes-publicos-gitcoin-y-financiamiento-cuadratico/)
- An indebtedness atlas for Argentina (https://ricardopasquini.com/an-indebtedness-atlas-for-argentina/)
- Ideas y proyectos para ingenieros y administradores relacionados a la emergencia del COVID-19 (https://ricardopasquini.com/ideas-y-proyectos-para-ingenieros-y-administradores-relacionados-a-la-emergencia-del-covid-19/)
- Installing H3 on a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 (https://ricardopasquini.com/installing-h3-on-windows-10/)
- Implementing a scalable geospatial operation in MongoDB (https://ricardopasquini.com/2122-2/)
- Reshape of lat and lon coordinates in MongoDB, using the aggregate pipeline (https://ricardopasquini.com/reshape-of-lat-and-lon-coordinates-in-mongodb-using-the-aggregate-pipeline/)
- Efectos de la ley de Alquileres CABA (https://ricardopasquini.com/efectos-de-la-ley-de-alquileres-caba-2017-2/)
- Instalacion y consultas a Google Big Query desde Jupyter (https://ricardopasquini.com/instalacion-y-consultas-a-google-big-query-desde-jupyter/)