CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name
Ana Sofia Domingues Rodrigues
e-mail
[email protected]
Phone Nr.
+351 217614203
CURRENT
Since May 2006
Oct-Nov 2009
Senior Economist Merger Department, Autoridade da Concorrência
Exchange Program Energy Directorate
DGCOMP, European Commission
Merger Analyses in Banking, Energy, Air Transportation, Telecommunications and Retail Markets
Working Group with Banco de Portugal on Consumer Mobility in Retail Banking
Follow up of Merger Cases at the Competition Commission with participation on Advisory
Committees and Oral Hearings at DGCOMP
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Industrial Organization; Dynamic Industry Models; Firm Size Distribution; Competition Policy;
Switching Costs
EDUCATION
Oct 2002–Oct2007
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PhD in Economics
University of York, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Huw Dixon
Examination Committee: Prof. John Sutton and Prof. Bipasa Datta.
Thesis: “The Dynamics of R&D Competition”
2001–2002
MSc in Economics
University of York, UK
MSc Dissertation “Education and Economic Growth: Analysis of the most important
Theoretical and Empirical Contributions” under the supervision of Prof. Michael Wickens.
1995–2000
BSc (Economics)
University of Coimbra, Portugal
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Apr–Oct, 2004
& Jun-Jul 2005
Visiting Research Scholar Drexel University, Philadelphia
2004-2006
Teaching Fellow, Macroeconomics 3, BSc in Economics, U. of York
2002-2004
Teaching Fellow, Macroeconomics 1, BSc in Economics, U. of York
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OTHER EDUCATION
June 2005
7th edition of ISEG Summer School in “Distribution in Macroeconomic
Models” and “Topics on Macroeconomics of Imperfect Competition:
Entry”, in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 2005
Finnish Doctoral Program course “Empirical I.O.” by Professor Ariel
Pakes, in Helsinki, Finland.
April 2005
Royal Economic Society Easter School on “Modern Theories of
Macrodynamics and Growth” in Birmingham, UK.
PUBLICATIONS, CONCLUDED WORK AND WORK IN PROGRESS
A Theoretical Foundation for Understanding Firm Size Distributions and Gibrat’s Law (with C. Laincz). CP
05/34 University of York, Revise and Resubmit, Rand Journal of Economics.
The Impact of Cost-Reducing Spillovers on the Ergodic Distribution of Market Structures (with C. Laincz). WP
Autoridade da Concorrência, Revise and Resubmit, JEDC
Market Structure, Knowledge Spillovers and the Stock of R&D (with C. Laincz), close to submission.
Simulating Gibrat's Law with a Dynamic Structural Model (with C. Laincz), work in progress.
An Endogenous Growth Model consistent with the I.O. Stylised Facts (with H. Dixon), work in progress.
The Dynamic Effects of Switching Costs on the Evolution of Market Structures, work in progress.
The Dynamics of R&D Competition, British Library, British Thesis Service.
Ensaio sobre a literatura de Análise dos Efeitos da Educação no Crescimento Económico. Gestão e Desenvolvimento
no 12, July 2004, 199-218.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Best Paper, conference “Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Growth”, Nov 2004, Stockholm
PhD Scholarship awarded in January 2003, by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Portugal.
INVITED SEMINARS
Nov 2010
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Jan 2008
ISEG Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Lisbon, Portugal
Jun 2006
Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (PRESENTATIONS)
Sept 2009
EARIE 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia
April 2009
IIOC International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, USA
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Sep 2008
XXIII Jornadas de Economia Industrial, Reus, Spain.
Sep 2008
EARIE 2008, Toulouse, France
Sept 2007
EARIE 2007, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics,
Valencia, Spain
June 2007
1st Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal, Açores, Portugal
April 2006
Royal Economic Society Conference, Nottingham, UK
Sept 2005
ESSID European Summer School in Industrial Dynamics, Cargese,
Corsica.
Dec 2004
EC2 conference “Econometrics of Industrial Organisation”, Marseille, France.
Nov 2004
Innovation, Entreneurship and Growth at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 2004
Workshops Series of the DERS of the University of York, UK.
MEMBERSHIPS
Collaborator of the CEFAGE (Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics of
the University of Évora)
Member of the Royal Economic Society
Member of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
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