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The Dahrendorf Symposium on the Future of Europe

 I will be one of the invited speakers on the future of Europe as a political economy at the 2011 Dahrendorf

  Symposium, to be held in Berlin in November. The symposium is organized by the London School of

  Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the Hertie School of Governance, in Berlin. The event honours the

  legacy of Lord Ralf Dahrendorf and will count with George Soros, Timothy Garton-Ash, and José Manuel Barroso as speakers.

Consult the Dahrendorf Symposium page , and the press release

Obama and Financial Markets

Joint with Sharmin Sazedj, at NOVA School of Business and Economics, we are conducting research on the impact of  
President Obama´s economic speeches and its content on the three main U.S. financial indices. We have coded the 
specific content of over 40 speeches since President Obama´s inauguration, thorughout the onset of the financial crisis.

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The Lisbon Meeting on Institutions and Political Economy

The Lisbon Meeting on Institutions and Political Economy brings together scholars from Economics and Political Science who share methodologies and research topics. The meeting, to be held annualy, is organized by Pedro Magalhães and Jaime Reis (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon), and Susana Peralta and José Tavares (Nova School of Business and Economics). Paul Collier is the keynote speaker for this year´s meeting, held 8 and 9 September 2011.The Governor of the Bank of Portugal has awarded a prize to the two best papers presented in the meeting.

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The paper "The Good, The Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?”, joint with Paulo Júlio, has been published as a working paper at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The paper analyzes the conditions under which the imposition of gender quotas in politics decrease, have no effect, or increase the quality of elected politicians. We find that active gender quotas can increase the overall quality of politicians. In some cases the effect is non-linear so that a small quota decresaes the overall quality of the elected while a larger quota raises it.

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Created in 2009 through a generous family endowment, the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (FFMS) encourages the study, analysis, and debate of public issues of relevance to Portugal, and that contribute to economic development, the improvement of public institutions and the consolidation of citizens’ rights. I have been appointed as a member of the first scientific council of FFMS.

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The paper "Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation, and Government Size", joint with Tiago Cavalcanti, is forthcoming in Economic Inquiry. The article models and presents evidence of a causal relationship between increased female labour force participation and the size of government, which works in both causal directions.

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The article "Economic Integration and the Comovement of Stock Returns", published in Economics Letters, reveals strong evidence in favour of a positive relationship between bilateral real and monetary integration and the correlation between stock returns across economies.

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Joint with Paulo Arvate and George Avelino at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, I have published "", published in Economics Letters, reveals strong evidence in favour of a positive relationship between bilateral real and monetary integration and the correlation between stock returns across economies.

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I am a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), where several of my articles are available as working papers.

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VoxEU is a research-based opinion page that relies on contributions from leading economists across Europe. I have contributed with pieces on gender discrimination and the economics of terrorism.

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The article "Trade, Factor Proportions and Politics" examines the relationship between political rights and the degree of openness of an economy. It has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics.

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In the article "Assessing the “Engines of Liberation”: Home Appliances and Female Labor Force Participation" we examine how the secular rise of participation of women in the labor market has been aided by the increasing availability of productive home appliances. The article has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics.

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In 2008, the article "Economics and Terrorism: What We Know, What We Should Know and the Data We Need", joint with Fernanda Llussa, is published in the volume "Terrorism, Economic Development and Political Openness", edited by Phillip Keefer and Norman Loayza for the World Bank and Cambridge University Press.

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The paper "Regional Currencies versus Dollarization: Options for Asia and the Americas" has been reprinted in the volume "Prospects for Monetary Unions After the Euro", edited for MIT Press by Paul de Grauwe and Jacques Mélitz.

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