Hi, I am an Associate Professor of Economics with tenure (Professora Agregada Serra Húnter) in the Department of Economics at the Universitat de Barcelona.
I am a member of the
Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT);
Centre d'Anàlisi Econòmica i de les Polítiques Socials (CAEPS).
In September 2014, I obtained my PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles - ECARES under the supervision of Professor Georg Kirchsteiger.
My main research fields are behavioral economics, industrial organization, contract theory, and law and economics.
I am one of the organizers of the UB Microeconomics Workshop.
News: The paper Control Aversion in Hierarchies, with Alessandro De Chiara, Florian Engl, and Holger Herz, has been published in the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2025).
The paper Efficient Copyright Filters for Online Hosting Platforms, with Alessandro De Chiara, Antoni Rubí-Puig, and Adrian Segura-Moreiras, has been published in Information Economics and Policy (2025) 71, 101143.
Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct, with Nadia Burani, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Industrial Economics.
email: ester.manna1@gmail.com; estermanna@ub.edu
ORCID number: 0000-0002-6932-0577
For more information please download my cv.