Rosa-Branca Esteves
Senior expert · Digital pricing & IO

Rosa-Branca Esteves

Full Professor of Economics · Universidade do Minho
DPhil Economics · University of Oxford (2005) · Habilitation in Economics (2023)
Full Professor · U. Minho President · School Council · EEG Director · PhD in Economics DPhil · Oxford IJIO Best Paper Award 2015 NIPE Researcher
Areas of expertise
Industrial organisation Game theory Competition in digital markets Price discrimination Personalised pricing Targeted advertising Data-driven mergers

The economics of
personalised pricing .

Full professor at the University of Minho with a focused research programme on competition in digital markets — personalised pricing, price discrimination, targeted advertising, and data-driven mergers.

Full professor of economics at the University of Minho and researcher at NIPE — Economic Policies Research Unit. Director of the PhD Programme in Economics since 2021. President of the School Council of the School of Economics, Management and Political Science (EEG), from November 2025.

Research focus on industrial organisation, game theory, and digital markets — with particular attention to personalised pricing, price discrimination, targeted advertising, data-driven mergers, and competition policy. Eighteen peer-reviewed journal articles in outlets including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and Marketing Science.

Her 2014 IJIO paper on elasticity and behaviour-based pricing won the Best Paper Award in 2015.

Habilitation
Economics (2023)
DPhil
Economics, University of Oxford (2005)
MSc
Industrial Economics, University of Minho (1999)
BA
Economics, University of Porto (1995)

Leadership at the EEG
and at NIPE .

Sustained academic leadership at U. Minho's School of Economics, Management and Political Science, alongside a focused research programme on competition in digital markets.

Universidade do Minho · EEG
Full Professor of Economics; President of the School Council from Nov. 2025.
Current
PhD Programme in Economics · U. Minho
Director.
2021 — present
NIPE — Economic Policies Research Unit
Researcher.
Current
Department of Economics · U. Minho
Head of Department.
2018 — 2020
MSc in Economics · U. Minho
Director.
2012 — 2016
BSc in Economics · U. Minho
Director.
2010 — 2012

What we are writing about .

2014
Elasticity and behaviour-based pricing
IJIO — Best Paper Award 2015
Recent
Personalised pricing and consumer welfare
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Recent
Targeted advertising in two-sided markets
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Recent
Data-driven mergers and consumer profiling
Marketing Science

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