Joana Resende

  • Vice-Rector for Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Valorization – Universidade do Porto

  • President of the Board of Directors of UPTEC – University of Porto Science and Technology Park

  • Member of the Executive Board of EUGLOH – European Alliance for Global Health and local coordinator of the

  • participation of University of Porto in the European Alliances Initiative

  • Full Professor – School of Economics and Management of University of Porto

  • Integrated researcher of CEFUP Center for Economics and Finance of University of Porto

  • Member of the General Council of INESC TEC

  • Non-executive administrator of Fundação da Juventude

  • Non-executive administrator of Glintt

Academic background

2108 – “Agregação” in Economics

2004/ 2009 - PhD in Economics and Management Science (Université Catholique de Louvain – joint degree with Universidade do Porto)

1999/ 2004 - Degree in Economics, Universidade do Porto (5-years programme) – 18/20 (top graduate)

Main teaching fields

Industrial Organization (Bachelor, Master), Microeconomics (Bachelor, PhD); Competition Policy and Economic Regulation (Master), Mathematical Economics (PhD); Digital Economics (Master); Seminars (PhD)

Select publications

Laussel, D., Long, N. V., & Resende, J. (2022). "Profit Effects of Consumers’ Identity Management: A Dynamic

Model". Management Science

Laussel, D., & Resende, J. (2022). When is product personalization profit-enhancing? a behavior-based

discrimination model. Management Science, 68(12), 8872-8888.

Laussel, D., Long, N. V., & Resende, J. (2022). Dynamic monopoly and consumers profiling accuracy. Journal

of Economics & Management Strategy, 31(3), 579-608.

Garella, P. G., Laussel, D., & Resende, J. (2021). Behavior based price personalization under vertical product

differentiation. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 76, 102717.

Laussel, D., Long, N. V., & Resende, J. (2020). “The curse of knowledge: having access to customer information can reduce monopoly profits.” The RAND Journal of Economics, 51(3), 650-675.

Varum, C., H. Valente, J. Resende, M. Pinho, P. Sarmento, S. Jorge (2016), Economia Industrial: Teoria e exercícios práticos, Edições Sílabo

Projects and grants

2023-2026 – Erasmus+ - EUGLOH2.0 - The European Alliance for Global Health (Local Coordinator at Universidade do Porto

2021-2023 – H2020 Swafs - EUGLOHRIA “The European Alliance for Global Health – Transformation through Joint Research and Innovation Action” (Local coordinator at Universidade do Porto)

2018-2021 – Erasmus+ - EUGLOH - The European Alliance for Global Health (Local Coordinator at Universidade do Porto

2018-2021 – Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) - New Business Models in the Digital Age – Theory and Practice (Principal investigator)

2016-2019 – FCT - Competition Issues in the Era of Big Data (Researcher)

2012-2014 – FCT - Games with strategic complementarities (Principal Investigator)

2012-2014 – FCT - Two-sided markets with asymmetric information (Researcher)

Awards and recognitions

2006 – Award Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira – XVIII Edition

2006 – Prémio Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida

2004 – Prémio Banco de Portugal

2000-2004 – Annual merit award Universidade do Porto

Technical reports and consultancy

2022/2023 – Economic analysis of the results of the public procurement acquisitions in the sector of private security

2020 – Economic analysis of the results of the public call for the acquisition of public road transportation service in Porto Metropolitan Area;

2020 – Analysis of the guide on practices for the acquisition of publicity and communication agency services

2017 – Analysis of market structure and competitive dynamics in the Portuguese electricity retail market

2018 – Benchmark analysis of fiscal and financial situation of forest activities in the European Union

2009-2016 – Assessment of the regulator’s proposal for tariffs and regulatory parameters in the electricity and

in the natural gas sectors – in collaboration with the Tariff Council of ERSE – Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos

2014 – Definition of the regulatory parameters for the electricity sector (period 2015-2018) – in collaboration with the Portuguese Energy Regulator (ERSE)

Participation in evaluation committees and jurys

ERC – European Research Council (non-paid evaluator) -2023

FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation) - Evaluation of Economics Research projects – 2016

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos- Assessment of Economics Research Project – 2022

A3ES (Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education in Portugal) – assessment of

Undergraduate and Master Programmes in the field of Economics - 2022