Maria do Carmo Felix da Costa Seabra

Name: Maria do Carmo Felix da Costa Seabra

Academic degrees

1997 - "Agregação" (habilitation) in Economy from the Faculty of Economy of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
1987 - Doctorate in Economy
1977 - "Licenciatura" (Graduated) in Economy from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Research work in the area of telecommunications

"Universal Service: Does Competition Help or Hurt?" 1999, with Pedro Pitta Barros, Information Economics and Policy, 11, 1999, 45-60.
"Instrument Insufficiency in Access Pricing Regulation of Telecommunications", 1997, with António Nogueira Leite and Vasco Santos, in Philip Enslow, Pete Desrochers and Irene Bonifacio, eds., Global Networking '97, Vol. 1, Oxford (UK): IOS Press (1997).
"Access Pricing Regulation", 1995, with António Nogueira Leite and Diogo Lucena, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, vol. CIII, no. 1, 51-65.
"Internationalisation and Foreign Direct Investment in Telecommunications Services in Portugal", with Diogo de Lucena, in Erik Bohlin and Ove Graanstand (editors), The Race to European Eminence, 1994, North-Holland.
"The Design of Regulatory Institutions in Public Utilities in Portugal", 1994, with António Nogueira Leite and Diogo Lucena, WP no. 229, FEUNL.
"The Design of Regulatory Institutions in the European Union", 1994, with António Nogueira Leite and Diogo Lucena, WP no. 230, FEUNL.
"Tarificação nas Telecomunicações" [Pricing in Telecommunications], 1993, with António Nogueira Leite, Economia, vol. XVII, no. 3, 265-319, (a preliminary version of this article was published as WP no. 231, FEUNL).
"Natural Monopoly in Portuguese Telecommunications", 1993, Applied Economics 25, 489-494.
"Telecommunications in the EEC Countries: Present Situation and Evolution", 1993, in European Economy, no. 3, European Commission.
"Comportamento da Empresa Regulamentada: 'survey' da Literatura" [Behaviour of the Regulated Company: survey of published work], 1984, Working Paper no. 13, FEUNL.
"Privatização da Portugal Telecom" [Privatisation of Portugal Telecom], 1996, Nova economia, no. 11, pp 36-39.
"A Afectação do Espectro Radioeléctrico Português" [Assignment of Portuguese Radio Spectrum], 1991, mimeo.
"Determinação da Existência de Monopólio Natural nas Telecomunicações Exploradas pelos CTT" [Determination of the Existence of Natural Monopoly in Telecommunications Operated by the CTT], (1986), mimeo (thesis).

Conference participation in the area of telecommunications

Implicações para a Regulação das Alterações em Curso no Sector das Telecomunicações [Implications for the Regulation of Ongoing Changes in the Telecommunications Sector], presented at the 6th Congress of the APDC, Lisbon, 1996.
Optimal Access Pricing, presented at the International Meeting of the International Telecommunications Society, Seville, 1996, with António Nogueira Leite and Vasco Santos.
Access Pricing and the B-W rule, presented at the Workshop on Access Pricing, organised in the context of the European network, financed by the EC, on analysis of regulation in the telecommunications, energy and gas sectors, Milan, 1995, with António Nogueira Leite and Diogo de Lucena.
Regulation of Telecommunications in the EU, presented at a Workshop on Regulation, organised in the context of the European network, financed by the EC, on analysis of regulation in the telecommunications, energy and gas sectors, Prague, 1995, with António Nogueira Leite and Diogo de Lucena.
The Internationalisation of Portuguese Telecommunications Operators, presented at the International Meeting of the International Telecommunications Society, Tel Aviv, 1994, and at the European Regional Meeting, Sweden, 1994, with Diogo de Lucena.
Empirical Characterisation of a Natural Monopoly, presented at the International Meeting of the International Telecommunications Society, Budapest, 1992.
Natural Monopoly in Portuguese Telecommunications, presented at the International Meeting of the International Telecommunications Society, in Venice, 1990, and at the Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association, Bologna, 1989.
Integration in European 'network', financed by the EC, involving various universities and whose aim is to analyse regulation of the telecommunications, energy and gas sectors, since 1993.

Courses lectured in this area

For three years, at the Faculty of Economy, a course in Microeconomy - applications to telecommunications, part of the masters programme in Applied Economy of the Faculty of Economy at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
In 2000/2001 a course in Postal Economy (about 20 lecture hours) given in the context of the MBA programme of the UNL Faculty of Economy for the CTT (Portuguese Postal Service)