Curriculum Vitae
Name: Maria Ana Vitorino
Citizenship: Portuguese
Education
2008 (exp.) Ph.D. Marketing, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Area of Specialization: Econometrics and Statistics
2002 MSc in Statistics, London School of Economics
2000 "Licenciatura" in Business Administration, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Academic and Professional Activities
University of Chicago
2006-07 Teaching Assistant (Pricing Strategies - MBA), Prof. J.P.Dubé
2005-06 Teaching Assistant (Pricing Strategies - MBA), Prof. J.P.Dubé
2004-05 Course Assistant
(Statistical Theory and Methods I and II), Prof. Stigler (Statistics Department)
(Statistical Methods and Applications-Economics variant), Prof. Wilder (Statistics Department)
Teaching Assistant (Pricing Strategies - MBA), Prof. J.P.Dubé
Teaching Assistant (Marketing Strategy - MBA), Prof. Hitsch
2003-04 Course Assistant
(Statistical Methods and Applications-Economics variant), Prof. Wilder (Statistics Department)
Teaching Assistant (Marketing Strategy - MBA), Prof. Chintagunta
Teaching Assistant (Pricing Strategies - MBA), Prof. J.P.Dubé
Teaching Assistant (Marketing Strategy - MBA), Prof. Pennington
1999-01 Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Department of Economics and Business)
Assistant Lecturer (Statistics I and II, Marketing I and II)
1999 ATKearney, Management Consulting (Summer Internship), Business Analyst
Working Papers and Articles
Dissertation Research
Essay 1 (Job Market paper):“Empirical Entry Games with Complementarities:
An Application to the Shopping Center Industry,” WP 2007
Essay 2: “Competition, Variety and the Geography of the Shopping Center Industry,” Work in Progress
Other Research
“Category Pricing with State Dependent Utility,” with J.P. Dubé, Günter Hitsch and
Peter Rossi, forthcoming, Marketing Science
“Multiple Equilibria in Static Empirical Pricing Games,” with J.P. Dubé and
Che-Lin Su , Work in Progress
Presentations
Oct 2007 (scheduled) “Empirical Entry Games with Complementarities: An Application to the Shopping Center Industry"
to be presented at the Quantitative and Marketing Economics (QME) Conference, Chicago
Aug 2007 Invited seminar speaker at the
Institute on Computational Economics, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Jun 2005 “Category Pricing with State Dependent Utility” presented at the
Marketing Science Conference, Emory University
Jun 2005 “Category Pricing with State Dependent Utility” presented at the
Marketing Workshop, GSB, University of Chicago
Apr 2004 “Estimation of Equilibrium Models Using a Likelihood Based Approach" presented at the
34th Annual Haring Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana
Jan 2004 “Estimation of Equilibrium Models Using a Likelihood Based Approach" presented at the
Marketing Workshop, GSB, University of Chicago
Honors, Awards and Scholarships
AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2007
Kilts Center Fellow, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2007
Doctoral Scholarship, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal , 2006-
INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2005
TA-performance bonus for excellence in teaching assistance (Executive MBA), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2004 and 2005
Haring Symposium Fellow, 2004
Summer Research Grant, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2003
Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2002-2006
Master's and Doctoral Scholarships, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Portugal, 2001 and 2002-2006
Service
Executive Committee, Portuguese American Post-Graduate Society, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Languages
Portuguese (native); English (fluent, oral and written); Spanish (fair, oral and reading) French (fair, oral and reading)
Computer Skills
Matlab, Stata, SAS, Eviews, SPSS, Minitab, R, C++, AMPL, Latex