I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of Universidade do Minho. I am also a member of the Economic Policies Research Unit (NIPE).
I have a PhD in Economics from Oxford University (2005). My PhD supervisor was Mark Armstrong .
Research interests: Competitive Price Discrimination, Advertising, Media Markets, Competition Policy, Industrial Organization and Game Theory .
Research
- Customer Poaching and Advertising, Journal of Industrial Economics, vol 57 (1), March 2009, 112-146. (Symposium on Advertising and Disclosure edited by Patrick Legros)
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Price Discrimination with Partial Information: Does it pay-off?, Economics Letters (2009), doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2009.05.11
Financed Research Projects:
New Insights on the Economics of Customer Recognition and Behaviour-Based Price Discrimination
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Researchers: Rosa Branca Esteves and Helder Vasconcelos
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Consultant: Prof. Mark Armstrong
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Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), 35.000 euros (Ref: PTDC/ECO/69786/2006)
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Duration: 3 years (2008-01-01 a 2010-12-31).
Working papers:
- Price Discrimination with Private and Imperfect Information, NIPE-WP 13/2008.
- Customer Poaching and Advertising, NIPE-WP 12/2007(Previous version awarded with the EARIE Young Economist Award Essay 2006).
- Price Discrimination with Partial Information: Does it pay-off?, NIPE-WP 12/2008. Accepted for publication in the Economics Letters.
- Pricing with Customer Recognition, NIPE-WP 27/ 2007. Under Revision to International Journal of Industrial Organization.
- Price Discrimination under Customer Recognition and Mergers (with Helder Vasconcelos)
- Behavior-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Demands.
- Price Discrimination with Incomplete Information about the Rival's Costs.
- Location Choices under Partial Price Discrimination in a Multi-Characteristic Space
Teaching
- Microeconomics III (Undergraduate)
- Advanced Microeconomics (Master)
- Competition Policy (Master)
Contacts
- Email: rbranca@eeg.uminho.pt
- Tel: + 351 253604100 (ext:605537)
- Fax: +351253676375
- Mail address: Department of Economics, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal