Faculty

• Sofia Castro

  sdcastro@fep.up.pt

• Research Area

  Bifurcation; Symmetry; Singularities; Economics

• Institution

  University of Porto

• PhD

  Institution: University of Warwick, UK
  Year: 1993

• Main research publications

  • Global Dynamics for Symmetric Planar Maps (with B. Alarcón and I.S. Labouriau) , Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - series A 33 (2013)
  • The Discrete Markus-Yamabe Conjecture for symmetric planar polynomial maps (with B. Alarcón and I.S. Labouriau) , Indagationes Mathematicae 23 (2012)
  • The core-periphery model with three regions and more (with J. Correia-da-Silva and P. Mossay) , Papers in Regional Science 91 (2012)
  • Chaotic switching in a two-person game (with M.A.D. Aguiar ) , Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239 (2010)
  • Direct Perturbations of Aggregate Excess Demand (with S. Dakhlia and P.B. Gothen) , Journal of Mathematical Economics 46 (2010)

• PhD Students

  • Liliana Sofia Garrido da Silva ongoing
  • José Gaspar co-supervision with João Correia da Silva, ongoing
  • Juliane Oliveira co-supervision with Isabel S. Labouriau, ongoing
  • Vasco L. C. G. Leite Essays on New Economic Geography co-supervision with João Correia da Silva, 2010
  • António Marques Three essays on the interaction among exit, sunk costs and entry decisions by the firms 2005
  • Manuela A.D. Aguiar Vector fields with heteroclinic networks 2003
  • Stella M.C. Abreu Redução do espaço de fase em campos de vectores simétricos 2000

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