Margarida Catalão Lopes
Senior expert · Industrial Organisation

Margarida Catalão Lopes

Full Professor · Universidade de Lisboa
PhD and Habilitation in Economics · UL · IST
Full Professor · UL · IST Former Coordinator · Banking System Unit · BdP Research Collaborator · AdC Habilitation · Economics
Areas of expertise
IO Game Theory Mergers CSR Energy Transition Banking

Mergers, vertical differentiation,
energy transition, and the
banking system .

Full professor at Universidade de Lisboa with prior research leadership at Banco de Portugal, and a sustained collaboration with the Portuguese Competition Authority.

Full professor of economics and industrial organization at Universidade de Lisboa, with Habilitation in economics. Prior research career at Banco de Portugal's Research Department, where she coordinated the Banking System Unit.

Long-standing collaborator with the Portuguese Competition Authority. Research interests span firm mergers and acquisitions, quality and vertical differentiation, information asymmetry, advertising, corporate social responsibility, finance and banking markets, the energy transition, and applications in health economics.

Habilitation
Economics
PhD
Economics
Now
Full Professor · Universidade de Lisboa — teaching Economics and Industrial Organization.

Academic and
institutional roles .

Concurrent academic and policy-side experience — teaching at UL · IST, prior leadership at the central bank's research arm, and ongoing collaboration with the competition authority.

Universidade de Lisboa
Full Professor — teaching Economics and Industrial Organization.
Current
Banco de Portugal · Research Department
Former Coordinator, Banking System Unit.
Prior
Autoridade da Concorrência
Long-standing collaborator on competition matters.
Ongoing

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