Maria Ana Vitorino is a doctoral student in marketing at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. She holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Portugal and a Master’s degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics.

 

Vitorino’s research interests include firms’ pricing strategy, consumer-choice models and using game-theoretic models to explain the strategic impact of firms’ entry decisions. Broadly, she is interested in empirical applications of statistics and economic models of industrial organization to marketing.

 

The emphasis of her dissertation research is on the effects of firm entry on market structure. Specifically, she investigates how firms’ interactions affect the composition of geographically concentrated groups of retailers (i.e. clusters).  Her current empirical application focuses on the Shopping Center Industry.