Afonso Boavida Rodrigues

I am a DPhil Economics student at the University of Oxford affiliated with Keble College; a former PhD Studentship holder with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal); and current holder of a One-Year Bursary with the Department of Economics. 

My primary research interests are Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation. My research concerns consumer choice and structural demand estimation with constrained choice sets, as well as firm behaviour, particularly endogenous models of product design and market structure.

My long-term research goal is to overcome the aggregability and estimation concerns of continuous demand systems to allow policy counterfactuals in settings with multi-unit, multi-product, cross-category purchases over large choice sets (e.g. supermarkets, restaurants, retail, marketplaces). These are settings where our current structural estimation methods are lacking, and where fixing existing alternatives requires deep theoretical and econometric expertise.

I am on the academic job market this year (2025/2026).

See my CV here. Email me at afonso.rodrigues@economics.ox.ac.uk.

References: Alexei Parakhonyak, Ian Crawford, Howard Smith.