Faculdade de Economia do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 4200-464 Porto, PORTUGAL Telephone: +351 225 571 100 Fax: +351 225 505 050 Email: hvasconcelos@fep.up.pt		Helder Vasconcelos
Curriculum Vitae		Research	Teaching
	Helder Vasconcelos is a Senior Vice President at Compass Lexecon, based in Madrid, Professor of Economics at Faculdade de Economia do Porto, and Research Associate at the Center for Economics and Finance at UP. His research interests are in Competition Policy and Industrial Organization issues.
Research
Publications
“Competitive effects of mergers and of spectrum divestment remedies in mobile telecommunication markets” (with Duarte Brito), Telecommunications Policy, Forthcoming. PDF Copy “Modelling the Objective Function of Managers in the Presence of Overlapping Shareholding” (with Duarte Brito, Einer Elhauge and Ricardo Ribeiro), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 87, March 2023, 102905. “Business models, consumer data and privacy in platform markets” (with Jorge Padilla and Salvatore Piccolo), Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Volume 49, May 2022, pp. 599–634. “Should Vertically Integrated Platforms be Mandated to Share Information with their Rivals?” (with Jorge Padilla and Salvatore Piccolo), Economics Letters, Volume 203, June 2021, 109849. “On the Competitive Effects of Single-Homing: The Case of Hybrid Marketplaces” (with Neil Dryden and Jorge Padilla), Competition Policy International, Antitrust Chronicle 2021, Winter 2021, Volume 2, Number 1. Link to the Article. “Overlapping Ownership, Endogenous Quality, and Welfare” (with Duarte Brito, and Ricardo Ribeiro), Economics Letters, Volume 190, May 2020, 109074. “Input Price Discrimination in the presence of Downstream Vertical Differentiation” (with Duarte Brito, and Markos Tselekounis), Economics Letters, Volume 184, November 2019, 108622. “Can Partial Horizontal Ownership Lessen Competition More Than a Monopoly?” (with Duarte Brito and Ricardo Ribeiro), Economics Letters, Vol. 176, March 2019, pp.90-95. “Quantifying the Coordinated Effects of Partial Horizontal Acquisitions” (with Duarte Brito and Ricardo Ribeiro), European Economic Review, Vol. 110, November 2018, pp.108-149. “Welfare Decreasing Endogenous Mergers between Producers of Complementary Goods” (with Pedro Pita Barros and Duarte Brito), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 60, September 2018, pp. 54-95. “Sequential Mergers and Antitrust Authority’s Decisions in Stackelberg Markets” (with Mariana Cunha), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Vol. 18, Issue 3, September 2018, pp. 373-394. “Unilateral Effects Screens for Partial Horizontal Acquisitions: The Generalized HHI and GUPPI” (with Duarte Brito, António Osório and Ricardo Ribeiro), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 59, July 2018, pp. 127-189. “Why do Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough” (with Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard, Per Hjertstrand, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson), The Economic Journal, Volume 127, Issue 605 (October 2017), F164 - F199. Vox Column “Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Mobile Communication Plans Using a Discrete Choice Experiment” (with João Confraria and Tiago Ribeiro), Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 41, Issue 3, April 2017, pp. 157-169. “Sustaining Collusion in Markets with Entry Driven by Balanced Growth” (with João Correia-da-Silva and Joana Pinho), Journal of Economics, Vol.118, Issue 1, May 2016, pp.1-34. “Determinants of Customer Price Sensitivity: An Empirical Analysis” (with Sérgio Dominique-Ferreira and João F. Proença), Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 30, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 327-340. “Price Discrimination under Customer Recognition and Mergers” (with Rosa Branca Esteves), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 24, Issue 3, Fall 2015, pp. 523-549. “Exclusionary Pricing in Markets with Interdependent Demands”, Economics Letters, Vol. 134, September 2015, pp. 24-28. “Reference Pricing in the Presence of Pseudo-Generics” (with Ricardo Gonçalves and Vasco Rodrigues), International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Vol. 15, Issue 3, September 2015, pp. 281-305. “Mergers in Stackelberg Markets with Efficiency Gains” (with Mariana Cunha), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, June 2015, Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 105-134. “Is Exclusionary Pricing Anticompetitive in Two-Sided Markets?”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 40, May 2015, pp. 1-10. “Inter-Firm Bundling and Vertical Product Differentiation” (with Duarte Brito), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, Issue 1, January 2015, pp. 1-27. “How Should Cartels React to Entry Triggered by Demand Growth?” (with João Correia-da-Silva and Joana Pinho), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2015, pp. 209-255. “Asymmetric Collusion with Growing Demand” (with António Brandão and Joana Pinho), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December 2014, pp. 429-472 “Bundled Discounts: Strategic Substitutes or Complements?” (with Duarte Brito), Economics Letters, 124, Issue 2, August 2014, pp. 278-282. “Divesting Ownership in a Rival” (with Duarte Brito and Luís Cabral), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 34, May 2014, pp. 9-24. “Measuring Unilateral Effects in Partial Horizontal Acquisitions” (with Duarte Brito and Ricardo Ribeiro), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 33, March 2014, pp. 22-36. IJIO Best Paper Award 2015 “Anticompetitive Effects of Pseudo-Generics” (with Vasco Rodrigues and Ricardo Gonçalves), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Vol. 14, Issue 1, March 2014, pp. 83-98. “Can the Failing Firm Defence Rule be Counterproductive?”, Oxford Economic Papers, April 2013, Vol. 65(2), pp. 567-593. “Endogenous Mergers and Collusion in Asymmetric Market Structures” (with Mattias Ganslandt and Lars Persson), Economica, October 2012, Vol. 79, Issue 316, pp. 766-791. “Consumer-Surplus-Enhancing Collusion and Trade” (with George Deltas and Alberto Salvo), RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2012, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 315-328. “Social-Welfare-Enhancing Collusion and Trade” (with George Deltas and Alberto Salvo), In: Recent Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation, edited by Joseph E. Harrington, Yannis Katsoulacos, and Pierre Regibeau, Elgar Publishing, 2012, 140-160. “Vertical Integration and Right of First Refusal” (with Luís Cabral), Economics Letters, 113, Issue 1, October 2011, pp. 50-53. “Efficiency Gains and Structural Remedies in Merger Control”, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 58, Issue 4, December 2010, pp. 742-766. “Sequential Cross-Border Mergers” (with Eileen Fumagalli), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 27, Issue 2, March 2009, pp. 175-187. “Sustaining Collusion in Growing Markets”, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 17, Number 4, Winter 2008, 973–1010. “Merger Remedies in the EU: An Overview” (with Massimo Motta and Michele Polo), Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 52, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter 2007, pp. 603-631. “Endogenous Mergers in Endogenous Sunk Cost Industries”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, March 2006, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 227-250. The Paul Geroski Best Article" Prize for the best paper published in 2006 “Efficiency Gains and Myopic Antitrust Authority in a Dynamic Merger Game” (with Massimo Motta), International Journal of Industrial Organization, December 2005, Vol. 23, Issues 9-10, pp. 777-801. “Tacit Collusion, Cost Asymmetries, and Mergers”, RAND Journal of Economics, Spring 2005, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 39-62. “Entry Effects on Cartel Stability and the Joint Executive Committee”, Review of Industrial Organization, May 2004, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 219-241. Industrial Organization Society's Best Paper/Younger Scholar Award
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Working Papers
“On the Private and Social Value of Consumer Data in Vertically-Integrated Platform Markets” (with Jorge Padilla and Salvatore Piccolo) PDF Copy “The Competition Effects of Industry-wide RPM under Two-Part Tariffs” (with Duarte Brito) PDF Copy “Competitive Effects of Partial Control in an Input Supplier” (with Duarte Brito and Luís Cabral) PDF Copy
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Teaching
Seminar
Ph.D. in Economics Faculdade de Economia do Porto Course Web Page
Microeconomics II
PhD in Economics Faculdade de Economia do Porto Course Web Page
Digital Economics
MSc in Economics Faculdade de Economia do Porto Course Web Page