Associate Professor
Católica Porto Business School
Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327
4169-005 Porto
Portugal
Telephone: +351 226 196 200
Email: rribeiro[at]ucp.pt

Education

PhD in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Research Interests

Industrial Organization
Competition Policy
Applied Microeconomics
Applied Econometrics

Publications

“Common-Ownership vs. Cross-Ownership: Evidence from the Automobile Industry” with Cristian Huse and Frank Verboven. The Journal of Industrial Economics, Forthcoming. [Online Appendix]

“Modelling the Objective Function of Managers in the Presence of Overlapping Shareholding” with Duarte Brito, Einer Elhauge and Helder Vasconcelos, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2023, 87, 102905.

“Overlapping Ownership, Endogenous Quality, and Welfare” with Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos, Economics Letters, 2020, 190, 109074. [Online Mathematical Appendix]

“How to Serve Online Consumers in Rural Markets: Evidence-based Recommendations” with Carolina Horta, Rui Sousa and Elliot Rabinovich, Business Horizons, 2020, 63, 3, 351-362.

“Can Partial Horizontal Ownership Lessen Competition More Than a Monopoly?” with Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos, Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 90-95. [Online Appendix]

“Quantifying the Coordinated Effects of Partial Horizontal Acquisitions” with Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos, European Economic Review, 2018, 110, 108-149. [Replication Pack]

“Unilateral Effects Screens for Partial Horizontal Acquisitions: The Generalized HHI and GUPPI” with Duarte Brito, António Osório and Helder Vasconcelos, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, 59, 127-189.

“Measuring Unilateral Effects in Partial Horizontal Acquisitions” with Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2014, 33, 22-36. The International Journal of Industrial Organization Best Paper Award 2015.

Working Papers

“A Simple Globally Consistent Continuous Demand Model for Market Level Data” with Peter Davis.

“Consumer Demand for Variety: Intertemporal Effects of Consumption, Product Switching and Pricing Policies”.

“Endogenous Product Design and Quality When Consumers Have Heterogeneous Limited Attention” with Mariana Cunha and António Osório.

“Estimating Oligopoly with Shareholder Voting Models” with José Azar. CRESSE & CPI Best Paper Award 2022. Revise & Resumit: Review of Economic Studies.

“Market Dominance and Barriers to Competition in Financial Trading Venues”.

“Overlapping Ownership, Product Differentiation and Tacit Collusion” with Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos.

“The Pricing of Bank Bonds, Sovereign Credit Risk and ECB’s Asset Purchase Programmes” with Ricardo Branco and João Pinto.

Refereeing Services

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Economic Theory, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Information Economics and Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Manchester School, Mathematical Social Sciences, Review of Economic Design, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Economics, and Scottish Journal of Political Economy.