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.
email: ester.manna1@gmail.com; estermanna@ub.edu
ORCID number: 0000-0002-6932-0577
For more information please download my cv.