Research Interests: 

Experimental and Behavioural Economics

Environmental and Energy Economics

Applied Microeconomics (Environment, Energy, Firm behaviour, Health, Education)

Journal Articles:

-  Engelmann, D., Frank, J., Koch, A. K., & Valente, M. (2023). Second‐chance offers and buyer reputation systems: theory and evidence on auctions with default. The RAND Journal of Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12448   

-      Pinto, L. C., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2022). Forest bioenergy as a land and wildfire management tool: Economic valuation under different informational contexts. Energy Policy, 161, 112765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112765 

-      Correia, I. M., Ferreira, P., Pinto, L. M., Valente, M., & Veiga, P. (2021). Ageing (un) equally and (un) healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people aged 50+. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 20(1-2), 45-64.  https://doi.org/10.1386/pjss_00033_1 

-      Fernandes, M. E., & Valente, M. (2021). What you get is not what you paid for: new evidence from a lab experiment on negative externalities and information asymmetries. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics,  Volume 93, August 2021, 101712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2021.101712 

- Valente, M., Sá, C., Soares, N., Sousa, S., (2021) Exploring the consistency of ethical perceptions by business and economics higher education students: looking from academia towards the corporate world,  International Journal of Management Education, Volume 19, Issue 2, July 2021, 100499,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100499  

-        Monteiro, N., Straume, O., Valente, M., (2021) When does remote electronic access (not) boost productivity? Longitudinal evidence from Portugal, Information Economics and Policy, 56, 100923  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100923 

-        Pinto, L. M. C., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2021). Explaining the Social Acceptance of Renewables through Location-Related Factors: An Application to the Portuguese Case. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 806.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020806 

-        Pinto, L. M. C., Sá, C., Soares, N., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2020). The case for academic hazing as a rational choice: An economic approach. Economic Analysis and Policy, 66, 51–62.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2020.02.004 

-        Soares, N., & Valente, M. (2020). Exploring the relation between cultural values and R&D investment under the behavioral theory of the firm. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 30(1), 31–42.   https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/1663 

-        Botelho, A., Dias, I. C., Fernandes, T., Pinto, L. M. C., Teixeira, J., Valente, M., & Veiga, P. (2019). Overestimation of health urgency as a cause for emergency services inappropriate use: Insights from an exploratory economics experiment in Portugal. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(4), 1031–1041. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12720 

-        Sousa, S., Botelho, A., Pinto, L., & Valente, M. (2019). How relevant are non-use values and perceptions in economic valuations? The case of hydropower plants. Energies, 14(15).  https://doi.org/10.3390/en12152986 

-        Botelho, A., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Pinto, L. M. C., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2018). Discrete-choice experiments valuing local environmental impacts of renewables: two approaches to a case study in Portugal. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 20, 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0169-0 

-        Valente, M., & Chaves, C. (2018). Perceptions and valuation of GM food: A study on the impact and importance of information provision. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 4110–4118.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.042 

-        Botelho, A., Pinto, L. M. C., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2017). Accounting for local impacts of photovoltaic farms: The application of two stated preferences approaches to a case-study in Portugal. Energy Policy, 109(October ), 191–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.06.065 

-        Fernandes, M. E., & Valente, M. (2018). When Is Green Too Rosy? Evidence from a Laboratory Market Experiment on Green Goods and Externalities. Games, 9(3), 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/g9030070 

-        Botelho, A., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Pinto, L., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2016). Using stated preference methods to assess environmental impacts of forest biomass power plants in Portugal. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-016-9795-6 

-        Botelho, A., Pinto, L. M. C., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Valente, M., & Sousa, S. (2016). Social sustainability of renewable energy sources in electricity production: An application of the contingent valuation method. Sustainable Cities and Society, 26, 429–437.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.05.011 

-        Botelho, A., Pinto, L., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2016). Public Perceptions of Environmental Friendliness of Renewable Energy Power Plants. Energy Procedia, 106, 73–86.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.12.106 

-        Engelmann, D., Munro, A., & Valente, M. (2017). On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods. Journal of Economic Psychology, 61, 134–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.002 

-        Guedes, M. J., da Conceição Gonçalves, V., Soares, N., & Valente, M. (2016). UK evidence for the determinants of R&D intensity from a panel fsQCA. Journal of Business Research, 69(11), 5431–5436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.150 

-        Munro, A., & Valente, M. (2016). Green Goods: Are They Good or Bad News for the Environment? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment on Impure Public Goods. Environmental and Resource Economics, 65(2), 317–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9898-9 

-        Botelho, A., Lourenço-Gomes, L., Pinto, L. M. C., Sousa, P., Sousa, S., & Valente, M. (2015). Using Choice Experiments to Assess Environmental Impacts of Dams in Portugal. AIMS Energy, 3(3), 316–325. https://doi.org/10.3934/energy.2015.3.316 

-        Valente, M. (2015). Ethical Differentiation and Consumption in an Incentivized Market Experiment. Review of Industrial Organization, 47, 51–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-015-9455-2 

Research Projects:

• PTDC/IIM-ECO/4574/2012: Bens éticos e comportamentos pro-sociais no contexto de experiências económicas [Ethical goods and prosocial behaviors in the context of economic experiments], (PI: Marieta Valente), 01-06-2013 a 31-08-2015

Financed by FEDER funds through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade – COMPETE and by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the project reference PTDC/IIM-ECO/4574/2012.

• PCIF/AGT/0153/2018 ECO.Fire - O valor económico dos incêndios florestais como suporte ao comportamento preventivo [The economic value of forest fires as support for preventive behavior]; 

15/01/2020 - 14/01/2023; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia; Financiamento: €167.909

Recent Conference Presentations:

SABE-IAREP Conference 2023  

IAPS 2022 International Association People-Environment Studies

ESA 2021  Global Meeting of the Economic Science Association

AERNA 2021 IX Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics

APEEN 2021 5th Annual Conference of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics.

INFER 2020 Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability.

ICEE 2019 4th  International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics, May 2019

INFER Workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 2016, University of Aveiro, Portugal

European Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) 2015, Heidelberg, September 2015 

ICEE2015 2nd International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics

2nd Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics, Aveiro, 18th September 2015

Annual Conference of the European Economic Association (EEA), Toulouse, France, 2014

Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal, 2014, 2012, 2011

Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), 2014

Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, July 8-11, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

Economic Science Association (ESA) European Regional Meeting 2008, Lyon, France

Annual Conference of the EAERE European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden

amongst others.

Referee for:

Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Cleaner Production, American Journal of Health Promotion, Energy Policy,  Business Ethics, Applied economics letters.