Cindy Lopes-Bento
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Dr. Cindy Lopes-Bento is a Research Associate at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
She joined the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University as an assistant professor in September 2015.
Since September 2017, she has been a tenured professor there.
Her research interests cover the fields of industrial economics and applied micro-econometrics, particularly in the area of the economics of innovation, technological change, and policy evaluation.
Before, she was a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, financed under the National Research Fund, co-funded under the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission.
She worked as a scientific attaché for the statistical office in Luxembourg and as an economic attaché for the European Commission, prior to the start of her doctoral studies.
She obtained her PhD in applied economics in March 2013 (KU Leuven) and holds an advanced master’s degree in economics from UCL, Belgium.
During her PhD studies, she spent one semester at Boston University and during her master’s studies at the Technical University of Lisbon.
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Consultant / Advisor | - |
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Finance |
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