Margarida CatalãoLopes
Margarida Catalão Lopes é doutorada e licenciada em Economia. É Professora Associada da Universidade de Lisboa, lecionando Economia e Organização Industrial. Antes do doutoramento, trabalhou no Departamento de Estudos do Banco de Portugal, na Unidade de Sistema Bancário. Colaborou com a Autoridade da Concorrência e é coautora de um livro sobre fusões e aquisições. Tem publicado em várias revistas internacionais com revisão por pares, cobrindo temas distintos como fusões de empresas, qualidade e diferenciação vertical, informação, publicidade, responsabilidade social das empresas, finanças e mercados bancários, transição energética, aplicações na saúde.
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Mergers and Acquisitions: The Industrial Organization Perspective (with D. Brito), 2006, Kluwer Law International, ISBN 90-411-2451-9
Vertical Product Differentiation: organizing and interpreting the existing results (with S. F. Jorge, C. P. Pires, I. Carrilho Nunes and A. Alventosa), 2022, ISBN 978-972-789-808-4, Universidade de Aveiro, https://doi.org/10.48528/mbj2-x794
Vertical product differentiation in the lab: impact of consumers’ preferences (with A. Alventosa, J. Pinho, J. and S. F. Jorge), 2023, Applied Economics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2198189
Profit raising entry under mixed behavior (with D. Brito), 2023, Journal of Economics 138, 51–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-022-00797-5
Survival Analysis of Cancer Patients in Portugal following the Reference Centre Model Implementation (with M. Melo Mateus and R. Portugal), 2023, European Journal of Health Economics 24, pp 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01461-x
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries (with I. Carrilho-Nunes), 2022, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2022.2150180
Cournot–Bertrand endogenous behavior in a differentiated oligopoly with entry deterrence (with D. Brito), 2022, Theory and Decision, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-022-09909-5
Post-merger internal organization in multitier decentralized supply chains (with D. Brito), 2021, Journal of Economics 132, 251-289, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-020-00723-7
Does asymmetric information always help entry deterrence? Can it increase welfare? (with C. P. Pires), 2020, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 29(3), 463-723, https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12350
Do distinct CSR Categories have distinct determinants? The roles of Market Structure and Firm Size (with D. Acabado, A. S. Branca and J. P. Pina), 2020, European Management Review 17(1), 5-17, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12341
Are larger merger synergies bad news for consumers? Endogenous post-merger internal organization (with D. Brito), 2019, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121(4), 1728–1756, https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12303
Economies of scope, entry deterrence and welfare (with C. P. Pires), 2013, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 13(1) (Topics), 419-452, https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2012-0078
Small fish become big fish: merger in Stackelberg markets revisited (with D. Brito), 2011, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 11(1) (Topics), 1-20, https://doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.2817
Signalling advertising by multiproduct firms (with C. P. Pires), 2011, International Journal of Game Theory 40(2), 403-425, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-011-0279-5
Strategic interaction and quality choice (with A. S. Branca), 2011, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence 22(3), 265-273, https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2010.530809
Mergers of producers of complements: how autonomous markets change the price effects (with D. Brito), 2010, The Manchester School 78 (1), 60-75, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2009.02128.x
Bank mergers, information, default and the price of credit, 2006, Economic Notes 35 (1), 49-62, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0391-5026.2006.00158.x
Market power measurement – an application to the Portuguese credit market, 1994, Investigaciones Economicas 18 (2), 391-399