On international cost-sharing of pharmaceutical R&D

Ramsey pricing has been proposed in the pharmaceutical industry as a principle to price discriminate among markets while allowing to recover the (fixed) R&D cost. However, such analyses neglect the presence of insurance or the fund raising costs for most of drug reimbursement. By incorporating these new elements, we aim at providing some building blocks towards an economic theory incorporating Ramsey pricing and insurance coverage. We show how coinsurance affects the optimal prices to pay for the R&D investment. We also show that under certain conditions, there is no strategic incentive by governments to set coinsurance rates in order to shift the financial burden of R&D. This will have important implications to the application of Ramsey pricing principles to pharmaceutical products across countries.

New analytical methodologies for doping control – detection of anabolic androgenic steroids in human urine

Dissertation submitted to Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Biochemistry - Biotechnology)

Freshwater arsenic detoxification through selenium-enriched food supplements. A proteomic approach

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de doutor em Bioquímica pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Functional and therapeutical implications of ligand recognition by the scavenger-like lymphocyte receptors CD5 and CD6

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Genética Molecular e Biomedicina

O amor de Alcibíades, crítica e emancipação em Rancière e Platão

Dissertação de mestrado em Estética

Que músicas falamos, que culturas cantamos? A aprendizagem intercultural através das canções em inglês e da autobiografia dos encontros interculturais

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino de Inglês

Technological adoption in health care - The role of payment systems

This paper examines the incentive to adopt a new technology given by some popular reimbursement systems, namely cost reimbursement and DRG reimbursement. Adoption is based on a cost-benefit criterion. We find that retrospective payment systems require a large enough patient benefit to yield adoption, while under DRG, adoption may arise in the absence of patients benefits when the differential reimbursement for the old vs. new technology is large enough. Also, cost reimbursement leads to higher adoption under some conditions on the differential reimbursement levels and patient benefits. In policy terms, cost reimbursement system may be more effective than a DRG payment system. This gives a new dimension to the discussion of prospective vs. retrospective payment systems of the last decades centered on the debate of quality vs. cost containment.

António Manuel Pinto Barbosa, economista e governante

António Manuel Pinto Barbosa (1917-2006), economista e governante, foi incluído pelo Expresso Revista entre os “Cem portugueses que moldaram o século XX”. Biografado por João César das Neves e Francisco Azevedo e Silva num livro publicado em 1999, cujo capítulo 7 o intitula “Decano dos economistas”, mas a sua actividade na Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, que fundou em 1978 e onde foi homenageado em 1989, e sobretudo na Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, é menos conhecida. Este escrito tenta reparar a falha e foca ainda o problema dos desequilíbrios da balança de pagamentos na Europa e no mundo que tanto o preocuparam, na medida em que interagem perigosamente com os desequilíbrios orçamentais, hipotecando a riqueza das nações. Inclui o elogio pronunciado em sessão conjunta da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 14/11/13 (cadeira nº 18L), o discurso de aceitação por Pedro Soares Martínez, decano da secção de direito e ciência política da Academia (cadeira 11L), pronunciado na mesma sessão, e um testemunho de Manuel Jacinto Nunes, que sucedeu a Pinto Barbosa enquanto decano dos economistas portugueses e da secção de economia e finanças da Academia (cadeira 8L), mas não estava na sessão. Seguem-se complementos incluíndo excertos duma análise dos desequilíbrios externos na Zona Euro no espírito de Pentti Kouri (1949-2009).

Technological adoption in health care

This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients’ benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied: cost reimbursement and (two variants of) DRG. According to the system considered, adoption occurs either when patients’ benefits are large enough or when the differential reimbursement across technologies offsets the cost of adoption. Cost reimbursement leads to higher adoption of the new technology if the rate of reimbursement is high relative to the margin of new vs. old technology reimbursement under DRG. Having larger patient benefits favors more adoption under the cost reimbursement payment system, provided that adoption occurs initially under both payment systems.

Mimesis e Alteridade na obra de Jean Painlevé

Dissertação de mestrado para obtenção do grau de mestre em Ciências da Comunicação, Arte e Comunicação.

Drivers and barriers to value creation in mobile service delivery

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Drivers of participation in collaborative consumption ventures

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Online consumer behavior: The tablet shopper – A new kind of customer?

Tablet computers are on the rise and are increasingly superseding stationary computers in terms of modern online shopping. This paper therefore aims on understanding how tablet and website characteristics might impact online consumer behavior. The collected data resulted from focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted with a technology affine audience. It has shown that tablets indeed may have shifted shopping behavior from utilitarian towards rather recreational attributes. Discussions also revealed high customer expectations towards visited shopping websites and prevailing deficits. Thus, harnessing the concept of experiential flow is crucial. Compelling experiences are required to increase the duration of stay and consequently the likelihood of increased purchases.

Application of different heuristic classes in memory-based and stimulus-based decisions

This paper studies the drivers of heuristic application in different decision types. The study compares differences in frequencies of heuristic classes' such as recognition, one-reason choice and trade-off applied in, respectively, memory-based and stimulus-based choices as well as in high and low involvement decisions. The study has been conducted online among 205 participants from 28 countries.

Use of multi-sensory marketing techniques and its influence on brand experience in retail and HORECA sector

Double degree. A Work Project presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA- School of Business and Economics and Warsaw School of Economics