Roxana Fernandez Machado

Roxana Fernandez Machado is an active Assistant Professor in Economics at ENSAE Paris, part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and affiliated with CREST. She also works at the European Commission Joint Research Center in Seville, Spain, demonstrating her significant contributions to both academic and policy-oriented economic research.

Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (2012-2017), a Research Master in Economics with distinction (2010-2012), and a B.A. in Economics with distinction from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2000-2005). Her professional journey includes experience at the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency in Lima and the Group for the Analysis of Development.

Dr. Fernandez Machado's research focuses on empirical industrial organization, with particular expertise in retail markets, e-commerce, competition policy, innovation, and digital markets. Her work combines theoretical frameworks with robust empirical analysis to address pressing questions about market structures, firm behavior, and consumer welfare in both traditional and digital economic environments.

Her research portfolio demonstrates consistent output since her doctoral studies, with recent publications examining French grocery retail sector dynamics, digital market competition, and the strategic implications of bundling in broadband markets. These works reflect her methodological expertise in structural econometrics applied to industrial organization problems.

• Labex-Ecodec Multipartnership grant (15,000 eur), 2019-2021
• Labex-Ecodec Individual (5,000 eur), 2018/2019/2020
• Research Grant, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (Qualcomm Inc. project), 2016
• CentER scholarship, Graduate School Tilburg University, 2010
• Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowships in ICT Inclusion Policies, DIRSI, 2009
• Academic Excellence Award, AFP Unión Vida, 2005

As an educator, she teaches Empirical Industrial Organization and Business Data Challenge at the graduate level at ENSAE Paris. She has supervised numerous M.Sc. and B.Sc. theses in economics and has presented her research at prestigious institutions including College de France, McGill University, and TILEC. Fluent in Spanish, English, and with intermediate French proficiency, she utilizes advanced quantitative tools including MATLAB, GAUSS, and Stata in her research.