Profile

Accounting course at the Lisbon Commercial Institute (in 1969); License degree at ISEG – University of Lisbon (in 1975); Doctorate of State in Economics at the University of Poitiers (in 1986); Aggregation at the University of Coimbra (U.C.) (in 1997); Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics (FEUC) of U.C., from 1998 to 2020; Emeritus Professor from FEUC – U.C. (in 2020); founding member of the Monetary and Financial Studies Group (GEMF, in 1983) which gave rise to CEBER; member of the CEBER research center; author of The Currency, the State and the Market (Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 1988); author of Economics Lessons (Minerva, 2004); co-author with Fernando Alexandre, Ives Gandra Martins, Paulo Rabello de Castro and Pedro Bação of The International Financial Crisis (U.C. Imprensa da U.C., 2009); and co-author with Rita Martins, Micaela Antunes and Nuno Silva (Principles of Microeconomics – Questions and Exercises (Imprensa da U.C., 2023); cultural interests in national and world economic history with an emphasis on the post-interwar period and the Holocaust; researcher in the areas of “monetary policy” and “applied macroeconomics”, although he has collaborated with colleagues in research in the areas of economic development, economic policy and inequality. More detailed information about the Curriculum can be found in Science ID 871F-4537-3F83 and ORCID iD 0000-0003-0999-2264.