Completed Doctoral Dissertations

• João Miguel Mourão Bravo Furtado, "Rationality and Rhizomatic Thinking in Games: Collective Action, Voting Behavior and Voting Rules", July 2009. Dissertation Committee: President: Prof. Pedro Pita Barros. Vogais: Prof. Jean-François Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique, Prof. Cesaltina Pires, Univ. Évora, Prof. José Tavares, Prof. Paulo Corte-Real (Advisor), Prof. Susana Peralta.

• Jaime Augustin Perez Luque, "Essays in Equilibruim Theory: Repo Markets and Formation of Jurisdictions with Public Goods", March 2009. Dissertation Committee: Prof. Diogo de Lucena (President); Prof. Nizar Allouch, Prof.ª Emma Moreno-García, Prof. Mário Páscoa (Advisor), Prof. José Tavares, Prof. Vasco Santos

• Renato Nunes Rosa, "Essays on Forestry Economics", March 2009. Dissertation Committee: Prof. Diogo de Lucena. (President); Prof. Olli Tahvonen, Prof. Américo Mendes, Prof.ª Clara Costa Duarte, Prof.ª Antonieta Cunha e Sá (Advisor), Prof. Paulo Corte-Real.

• João Miguel Bastos Vareda, "Essays on Telecommunications Access Regulation and Investment", April 2008. Dissertation Committee: Prof. Tommaso Valletti, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, Prof. Pedro Pita Barros, Prof. Hélder Ferreira Vasconcelos, UCP, Porto, Prof. Vasco Santos, Prof. Steffen Hoernig (Advisor)

• Pedro Gomes Rodrigues, "Pension Reform in Portugal: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis", July 2007. Dissertation Committee: Prof. Alfredo Marvão Pereira (Advisor), The College of William and Mary, Prof. Diogo de Lucena, Prof. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba Martos, Universidad de Salamanca, Prof. Pedro Teles, UCP, Prof. André Castro Silva

• António José Ribeiro dos Santos Morgado, "An Economic Analysis of Bankruptcy Law The Perspective of Incentives and Efficiency”, April 2007. Dissertation Committee: Prof. Frank Stephen, The Univ. of Manchester, Prof. Nuno Garoupa (Advisor), Prof.ª Célia Costa Cabral, FCT/UNL, Prof. Mário Coutinho dos Santos (UCP, Centro Regional do Porto), Prof.ª Susana Peralta

• Sílvia Luís Teixeira Pinto Ferreira Jorge, "Essays on Discriminatory Pricing in Oligopolistic Differentiated Markets", December 2006. Dissertation Committee: Pedro Pita Barros, Fernando Branco (UCP), Vasco Santos (Co-Advisor), Cesaltina Pires (U. Évora) (Advisor) e Steffen Hoernig.

• Francisca Rodrigues Sarmento Guedes de Oliveira, "Essays on Growth and Government Efficiency", December 2006. Dissertation Committee: Isabel Horta Correia (UCP), Álvaro Pinto Coelho de Aguiar (FEUP), Ana Balcão Reis, José Tavares (Advisor), Francesco Franco.

• Paulo Luís Fraga Martins Maio, "Essays on dynamic and equilibrium asset pricing", September 2006. Dissertation Committee: João Amaro de Matos (Advisor), Pedro Santa Clara Gomes (UCLA Anderson of Management)(Advisor), José Neves Adelino, João Duque (ISEG), Ana Paula Serra (FE Univ. Porto)

• Alexandra Paula Branco Pinto Leitão, "Essays on Environmental Economics and Growth", May 2006. Dissertation Commitee: Sjak Smulders, Américo Mendes, Clara Duarte, Advisor: Antonieta Cunha e Sá, Luís Catela Nunes, Ana Balcão Reis.

• Ana Isabel Pires Sarmento Lacerda, "Derivatives' Pricing in Dry Markets", March 2006. Dissertation Commitee: Tomas Björk, Mário Páscoa, João Amaro de Matos, Pedro Santa-Clara Gomes, Manuel Esquível.

• Jorge Alberto Mendes de Sousa, "Integração de mercados liberalizados de energia eléctrica com aplicações ao MIBEL", October 2005. Dissertation Commitee: António Brandão, Pedro Pita Barros, Maria do Carmo Seabra, Vasco Santos, Matilde Pinto Machado.

• Luís Filipe Neves Brites Pereira, “Crises and Credibility: Essays on Currency Pegs”, July 2005. Dissertation Commitee: Paul De Grauwe, Braga de Macedo, Catela Nunes, António Miguel Lebre de Freitas, José Tavares.

• Susana Cristina Melo dos Anjos Narciso, “Essays on policies for the health sector: the relationship between agents and their incentives”, November 2004. Dissertation Commitee: Xavier Martinez-Giralt, Andrew Street, Diogo de Lucena, Pedro Pita Barros, Vasco Santos.

• Tiago Miguel Guterres Neves Sequeira, "Essays on Human Capital, Economic Growth and Development", July 2004. Dissertation Commitee: Mário Páscoa, João Jorge Ferreira Gomes, Isabel Horta Correia, Ana Balcão Reis, José Tavares.

• Nuno Jorge Teixeira Marques Afonso Alves, “Essays on Frictions in General Equilibrium Models”, June 2004. Dissertation Commitee: Fabio Canova, Luís Campos e Cunha, Isabel Horta Correia, Pedro Miguel Pinho Teles, Tiago Vcavalcanti, Guilherme Carmona.

• Nuno Miguel Teles Gouveia, “General Equilibrium under Asymmetric Information, in an Economy with Indexed Assets and Default Penalities”, December 2003. Dissertation Commitee: Mário Páscoa, Juan Pablo Torres Martínez, José Fajardo Barbachan, Humberto Moreira, Guilherme Carmona, Abdelkrim Seghir.

• Paula Cristina Sequeira Nunes Antão, “Valorização de Opções em Mercados de Capitais Ilíquidos”, November 2002. Dissertation Commitee: Bruno Bias, José Neves Adelino, Pekka Hietala, Fernando Branco, Prof. Antonio Mele e Prof. João Amaro de Matos.

• António Armando Belo de Matos Rebocho Antunes, “Essays on Growth and Economic Policy”, January 2002. Dissertation Commitee: Isabel Horta Correia, Paulo Meneses Brasil de Brito, Abel Moreira Mateus, Antonio Ciccone, Ana Balcão Reis, Tiago Cavalcanti.

• Duarte Miguel Machado Carneiro de Brito, “Ensaios em Economia Industrial: Fusões e Aquisições”, December 2001. Dissertation Commitee: Joost Hartog, José Ferreira Machado, Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Clementina Teixeira dos Santos e Mário Centeno.

• Francisco Miguel Garcia Gonçalves de Lima, “Essays on Personnel Economics”, March 2001. Dissertation Commitee: Joost Hartog, José Ferreira Machado, Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Clementina Teixeira dos Santos e Mário Centeno.

• Pedro Miguel Guerreiro Patolea Pintassilgo, “Essays on the Management of High Seas Fisheries”, December 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Trond Bjorndal, Veijo Kaitala, Maria Helena Calleça Barahona Fernandes, Clara Costa Duarte, Cesaltina Pacheco Pires.

• Ana Cristina Freitas Brasão, “Ensaios em Economia dos Recursos Naturais”, December 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Trond Bjorndal, Veijo Kaitala, Clara Costa Duarte, Antonieta Cunha e Sá, Carlos Augusto Sousa Reis.

• João Luís Morais Amador, “Ensaios em Macroeconomia e Finanças Públicas", December 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Partha Sen, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, António Pinto Barbosa, Paulo Meneses Brasil de Brito, Isabel Horta Correia, Vasco 'Orey, Teresa Lloyd Braga.

• Marta Cristina Vieira Faias Mateus, “Ensaios na Teoria da Concorrência e na Teoria dos Mercados Financeiros”, November 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Rodolfo dos Santos Ferreira, Carlos Hervés-Beloso, Mário Páscoa, Emma Moreno Garcia, Vasco Santos, Antonieta Cunha e Sá.

• Maria Catarina Salema Roseta Palma, “Ensaios em Economia dos Recursos Naturais”, November 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Anastasios Xepapadeas, Santiago Rubio, António Nuno Fernandes Gonçalves Henriques, Clara Costa Duarte e Prof.ª Antonieta Cunha e Sá.

• Augusto Manuel Nunes Henriques, “Essays in the Portuguese Labour Market”, October 2000. Dissertation Commitee: Juan Francisco Jimeno Serrano, Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Leonor Ribeiro Modesto, Pedro Portugal, José Pedro Barosa.

• Ana Maria Santos Balcão Reis Peão da Costa, “Ensaios em Crescimento Económico”, September 1999. Dissertation Commitee: Sérgio Rebelo, António Pinto Barbosa, Jorge Braga de Macedo, João Luís César das Neves, Abel Moreira Mateus, Isabel Horta Correia.

• Maria Margarida Martelo Catalão Lopes de Oliveira Pires Pina, “Essays on Mergers and Banking”, May 1999. Dissertation Commitee: Xavier Martinez-Giralt, António Nogueira Leite, Luís Cabral, Paulo Guimarães, Pedro Pita Barros, Vasco Santos.

• Rui Nuno Garcia de Pina Neves Baleiras, “Economia Política em Governos Locais”, October 1997.

• Pedro Miguel Valente Pires Bela Pimentel, “Modelos Macroeconómicos com Indivisibilidade do Trabalho”, July 1997. Dissertation Commitee: Alfredo Marvão Pereira, Pedro Telhado Pereira, José Ferreira Machado, Vitor Gaspar, Miguel Pedro St. Aubyn.

• Pedro Luís de Oliveira Martins Pita Barros, "Ensaios em Economia Industrial", July 1993. Dissertation Commitee:L. Cabral (Advisor), J. Mata, Fernando Branco, António Nogueira Leite, Fernando Brito Soares.

• Maria Clara Reynaud Campos Trocado Costa Duarte, “Ensaios em Teoria Económica dos Recursos Renováveis”, December 1991. Dissertation Commitee: Diogo Lucena (Advisor), Trond Bjorndal, Luís Cabral, Carmo Seabra, José Dias Coelho

• Maria do Carmo Seabra, " A existência de monopólio natural nas telecomunicações em Portugal", Outubro 1987. Dissertation Commitee: António Pinto Barbosa (Advisor), Diogo de Lucena, Aníbal Santos, Fernando Adão da Fonseca.

• Vitor Louçã Rabaça Gaspar, "Contribuições para os Fundamentos Macroeconómicos da Economia Pública", April 1988. Dissertation Commitee: Prof. Alan Kirman, European University, Prof. António Soares Pinto Barbosa, Prof. Diogo de Lucena and Prof. Pedro Telhado Pereira.

• José Pedro Braga da Cruz Barosa, "Três Ensaios sobre o Mercado do Trabalho (contratos, rigidez salarial, ciclos) com aplicação à Economia Portuguesa", October 1986. Dissertation Commitee: Prof. António Manuel Pinto Barbosa, Prof. António Soares Pinto Barbosa, Prof. Luís Miguel Beleza and Prof. António Borges, INSEAD.