Professors

Klenio BARBOSA

Associate Professor

Banking, Corporate finance, Regulation, Public Economics

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Klenio BARBOSA

Academy

Globalization

Research center

Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation

Location

Sophia Antipolis

Discipline

Finance

Klenio Barbosa is an Associate Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School. He has also served as an assistant professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and Insper Institute of Education and Research. He has experience in the field of Economics, with an emphasis on Regulation, Procurement, Microeconomics of Banking and Corporate Finance. His papers have been published in international and Brazilian academic journals, including the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is also a reviewer of international and Brazilian academic journals, such as the Journal of Public Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2019
IPEA/Roberto Campos Research Award, Runner-up of Best Paper Published at the Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico, Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA)
2018
Best Paper: Cost Analysis of Substitutive Renal Therapies in Children, UNITED HEALTH GROUP Brazil Quality Award
2018
Runner-up of Best Brazilian Master Thesis in Banking (as Master Thesis Supervisor), FEBRABAN Award
Other research activities
Co-Editor
2023 - 2024
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Reviewer for:
Journal of the European Economic Association, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Public Procurement, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Politics, Southern Economic Journal, Value in Health Regional Issues, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Brazilian Review of Finance, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Empirical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory
PhD Supervision
2023
T. MARTINS, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2023
Y. CATTANI, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2022
A. SEINGYAI, Insper Institute of Education and Research, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2022
R. COUTO, Universidade de São Paulo, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2022
W. WANG, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2020
L. MENDES, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
Other academic activities
2023
Scientific Committee, Brazilian Econometric Society, Brazil
2023
Scientific Committee, Lancaster University, Great Britain
2021
FAPESP, Sao Paulo's State Science Foundation, Brazil

Peer-reviewed journal articles

BARBOSA, K. and FIUZA, E. (2025). Demand aggregation and payment risk effects on pooled procurement: Evidence from the public healthcare sector. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 103, pp. 102011.
BARBOSA, K., G. DE SILVA, D., YANG, L. and YOSHIMOTO, H. (2024). Bond Losses in Post-Auction Resale Markets: Causes and Consequences. International Journal of Finance and Economics, Special Issue, pp. 1-25.
BARBOSA, K., DE PAULA ROCHA, B., PEREIRA, L.M. and PASSOS, L.F. (2024). Payment card interchange fee regulation and financial institutions: The effects on traditional and fintech financial conglomerates. Finance Research Letters, 64(105491), pp. 1-8.
BARBOSA, K. and FERREIRA, F. (2023). Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances. Journal of Public Economics, 221, pp. 104856.
BARBOSA, K., VEIGA, V. and CAVALCANTI, A. (2023). The Social Economic Return of a PEEP-based Lung Recruitment Clinical Trial Programme in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Value in Health Regional Issues, 33, pp. 27-32.
BARBOSA, K., G. DE SILVA, D., YANG, L. and YOSHIMOTO, H. (2022). Auction Mechanisms and Treasury Revenue: Evidence from the Chinese Experiment. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(4), pp. 394-419.
BARBOSA, K. and BOYER, P. (2021). Discrimination in Dynamic Procurement Design with Learning-by-doing. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 77, pp. 102754.
BARBOSA, K. (2020). Comment on: Why is bank credit in Brazil the most expensive in the world? Brazilian Review of Finance, 18, pp. 23 - 28.
BARBOSA, K., FETTER, S. and ROCHA, B. (2019). An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Monetary Management under Exogenous Changes in the Money Supply. Applied Economics, 51(12), pp. 1248-1267.
BARBOSA, K., AZEVEDO, P.F. and CARDOSO, M. (2018). Market Power and Competition Intensity in the Brazilian Market of Banking Loan. Revista Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 48, pp. 7-32.
BARBOSA, K., LIBERMAN, M. and PIRES, J. (2018). Bank Failure and Regulatory Capital: Evidence from Brazil. Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 72, pp. 80-116.
BARBOSA, K. and SILVA, E. (2017). The Pattern of Generic Drug Entry in the Brazilian Pharmaceutical Market. Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 37(1), pp. 1-18.
BARBOSA, K., MOREIRA, H. and NOVAES, W. (2017). Interest Rates in Trade Credit Markets. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 49(1), pp. 75-113.
BARBOSA, K., CARRARO, A., ELY, R.A. and RIBEIRO, F.G. (2017). The Impact of the New Bankruptcy Law on the Brazilian Credit Market. Brazilian Journal of Applied Economics, 21(3), pp. 469-501.
BARBOSA, K., GONÇALVES, M. and FERNANDEZ, R. (2016). Evaluating the Institutional Aspects of the Brazilian Electric Sector through Contract Theory. Revista Planejamento e Politicas Públicas, 46(1), pp. 73-107.
BARBOSA, K., AZEVEDO, P.F. and CARDOSO, M. (2016). Competition in the Brazilian Banking Sector: Individualized Banks versus Banking Conglomerates. Revista Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 46(1), pp. 113-146.
BARBOSA, K., ROCHA, B. and SALAZAR, F. (2015). Assessing competition in the banking industry: A multi-product approach. Journal of Banking and Finance, 50, pp. 340-362.
BARBOSA, K., BUCIONE, A. and PORTELA SOUZA, A. (2014). Performance-Based Compensation vs. Guaranteed Compensation: Contractual Incentives and Performance in the Brazilian Banking Industry. Brazilian Journal of Applied Economics, 18(1), pp. 5-34.

Book chapters

BARBOSA, K., LAZZARINI, S. and LISBOA, M. (2018). Caixa Econômica Federal: Private Alternatives for the Management of Financial and Social Activities. In: Affonso Celso Pastore (ed.). How to Escape The trap of Slow Growth. 1st ed. CDPP Sao Paulo.
BARBOSA, K., VASCONCELLOS, L., TUROLLA, F., ALLAIN, M., PIRES, J. and TAKEDA, H. (2015). An Analysis of the Different Concession and Governance Frameworks for Public Bus Transportation System in the City of Sao Paulo. In: Série de Cadernos Técnicos. 1st ed. Sao Paulo: The World Bank.
BARBOSA, K. (2015). The Brazilian System of Price Registration. In: Eduardo Fiuza and Lucia Helena Salgado (ed.). Marcos regulatórios no Brasil : aperfeiçoando a qualidade regulatória. 1st ed. Rio de Janeiro: IPEA, pp. 3208-3242.

Keynote speaker

BARBOSA, K. (2024). The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel lll Spillover Experiment. In: Inaugural Lecture - Graduate Program in Economics - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Natal.

Guest editor of a journal special issue

BARBOSA, K. (2024). The Lancaster Conference: Advances in Industrial Organization and Microeconomics. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Conference presentations

BARBOSA, K. (2024). Capital Requirement, Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel III Spillover Experiment. In: Workshop Celebrating the 15 years of Williamson's Nobel Prize. Paris.
BARBOSA, K. (2024). Financing Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Cost and Environmental Performance of Government Green Bonds. In: Brazilian Finance Society Meeting. Curitiba.
BARBOSA, K. (2023). The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel lll Spillover Experiment. In: The European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). Rome.
BARBOSA, K. (2023). Bond Losses in Post-Auction Resale Markets and Systemci Risk. In: Brazilian Finance Society Meeting.
BARBOSA, K. (2023). The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel lll Spillover Experiment. In: Annual Conference on “Auctions, Competition, Regulation, and Public Policy".
BARBOSA, K. (2023). The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel III Spillover Experiment. In: Conference on Auctions, Competition, Regulation and Public Policy. Lancaster.
BARBOSA, K. and FERREIRA, F. (2020). Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances. In: Econometric Society World Congress. Bocconi.
BARBOSA, K. and LIMA, L. (2020). Cartel Damages in English Procurement Auctions with Endogeneous Entry: Evidence from a Medicine Cartel Case. In: ZEW (digital) Workshop. Manheim.
BARBOSA, K. and FERREIRA, F. (2020). Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances. In: Meeting of the Urban Economics Association. Philadelphia.
BARBOSA, K. and LIMA, L. (2019). Cartel Damages in English Procurement Auctions with Endogeneous Entry: Evidence from a Medicine Cartel Case. In: EARIE (Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics). Barcelona.
BARBOSA, K. and FERREIRA, F. (2019). Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances. In: SEA - Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. Fort Launderdale.
BARBOSA, K. and STRAUB, S. (2019). The Value of Revolving Doors in Public Procurement. In: European Economic Association Annual Meeting. Manchester.
BARBOSA, K., ARVATE, P. and FUZITANI, E. (2019). Party Expertise, Campaign Donation and Government Contracts: Evidence from an Electoral Quasi-Experiment. In: ZEW Research Seminar. Mannheim.
BARBOSA, K. (2019). The Political Economy of Regulation and Procurement. In: Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy. Cargese.
BARBOSA, K., ALENCAR, L. and ANDRADE, R. (2019). Bank Competition and the Limits of Creditor's Protection Reforms. In: SKEMA Business School, FAIRR Seminar Series. Sophia Antipolis.
BARBOSA, K. (2019). Banking Competition and Financial Stability: Implications to Banking Resolution. In: FGC-Insper Workshop (Sao Paulo). Sao Paulo.
BARBOSA, K. and SEINGYAI, A. (2019). The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel III Spillover Experiment. In: Febraban Workshop. Sao Paulo.