RAFAEL JIMENEZ DURAN

RAFAEL JIMENEZ DURAN

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University

Affiliate, IGIER

Affiliate Fellow, Chicago Booth Stigler Center

I am an applied microeconomist interested in the economics of social media


Working papers

Leonardo Bursztyn, Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Benjamin Handel, Christopher Roth
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: the Case of Social Media

George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Jesse McCrosky, and Mateusz Stalinski
Toxic Content and User Engagement on Social Media: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Karsten Müller,and Carlo Schwarz
The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany's NetzDG

Rafael Jimenez-Duran
The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter

Selected Publications

Holz, Justin; Jimenez Duran, Rafael; Laguna-Müggenburg, Eduardo
Estimating the distaste for price gouging with incentivized consumer reports
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL. APPLIED ECONOMICS, 2024

Alvarez, Fernando; Argente, David; Jimenez, Rafael; Lippi, Francesco
Cash: a blessing or a curse?
JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS, 2022

Guy Aridor; Rafael Jimenez-Duran; Ro'ee Levy; Lena Song
The Economics of Social Media

George Beknazar-Yuzbashev; Rafael Jimenez-Duran; Mateusz Stalinski
A Model of Harmful Yet Engaging Content on Social Media
2024