Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name: Alexandra Maria do Nascimento Ferreira Lopes
Adress: ISCTE – IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Economics Department (ISCTE Business School)
Av. Forças Armadas
1649 – 026 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: 351 217903498 (Office)
Email: [email protected]
Personal Page: http://www.iscte.pt/~amnfl
Education
Professional
Experience
Research
Date of birth: September 9th, 1976
Citizenship: Portuguese
Civil Status: Married, 1 daughter
Degrees Attained
- Ph.D:, Economics, ISEG – UTL, May 2007
- M.A., Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, December 2002
- B.A., Economics, ISCTE-IUL, July 1998
- Assistant Professor, Economics Departament, ISCTE-IUL, since May 2007.
- Lecturer, Economics Departament, ISCTE-IUL, February 2002 – May 2007.
- Economist, Department of Prospective and Planning, Ministry of Finance,
Portugal, February 1999 – December 2002
Publications in International Peer-Review Journals
1. Sequeira, T, A. Ferreira-Lopes, O. Gomes, “A Growth Model with Qualities,
Varieties, and Human Capital: Stability and Transitional Dynamics”,
forthcoming in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
2. Ferreira-Lopes, A., “The Welfare Costs of the EMU for Transition
Countries”, forthcoming in Prague Economic Papers.
3. Gomes, O., A. Ferreira-Lopes and T. Sequeira (2014), “Exponential
Discounting Bias”, Journal of Economics 113 (1): 31 – 57 (DOI: 10.1007/s00712013-0363-3).
4. Silva, R. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2014), “A Regional Development Index for
Portugal”, Social Indicators Research 118 (3): 1055-1085 (DOI: 10.1007/s11205013-0455-z).
5. Sequeira, T. N. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2014), "Quantifying Distortions from
Pollution on a R&D Endogenous Growth Model", Estudios de Economia 41
(1): 149-159.
6. Ferreira-Lopes, A. and T. Sequeira (2014), "The Dynamics of the Trade
Balance and the Terms of Trade in Central and Eastern European Countries",
Acta Oeconomica, 64 (1): 51 – 71, March.
7. Ferreira-Lopes, A., T. Sequeira, C. Roseta-Palma (2013), "On the Effect of
Technological Progress on Pollution: An Overlooked Distortion in
Endogenous Growth", Oxford Economic Papers 65 (2): 394-416.
8. Sequeira, T. e A. Ferreira-Lopes (2013), “Social Capital and Investment in
R&D: New Externalities”, Journal of Business Economics and Management, 14
(1): 77 – 97.
9. Ferreira-Lopes, A., C. Roseta-Palma, and T. Sequeira, (2012), "When sociable
workers pay off: can firms internalize social capital externalities?", Structural
Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2): 127-136, June.
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10. Ferreira-Lopes, A. e T. Sequeira (2012), “Business Cycles Association in a
Small Monetary Union: The Case of Switzerland”, Spatial Economic Analysis 7
(1): 9-30, March (lead article).
11. Ferreira-Lopes, A. and T. Sequeira (2011), "Business Cycles in Reunified
Germany: Closer Together or Further Apart?", Review of Urban and Regional
Development Studies 23 (2-3): 94-113, July-November.
12. Sequeira, T. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2011), "An Endogenous Growth Model
with Human and Social Capital Interactions", Review of Social Economy 69
(4): 465 – 493.
13. Ferreira-Lopes, A. and A. M. Pina (2011), "Business Cycles, Core and
Periphery in Monetary Unions: Comparing Europe and North America",
Open Economies Review 22 (4): 565-592.
14. Sequeira, T. e A. Ferreira-Lopes (2010), “Does a Federal Country Need
Federal Transfers when it has Labor Mobility?”, Regional Studies 44 (9): 11171129.
15. Sequeira, T. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2010), “On the Welfare Properties of the
Lucas and Romer Endogenous Growth Models”, Economics Bulletin 30 (3):
2143-2150.
16. Ferreira-Lopes, A. (2010), “In or Out? The Welfare Costs of EMU
Membership”, Economic Modelling 27 (2): 585-594, March.
17. Roseta-Palma, C.; A. Ferreira-Lopes, and T. Sequeira (2010), “Externalities in
an endogenous growth model with social and natural capital”, Ecological
Economics 69 (3): 603-612.
18. Sequeira, T. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2009), “Should the Federal Government
Reallocate Funds within Federal Transfers?”, Public Finance Review 37 (5): 596612, September.
19. Monteiro, H. and A. Ferreira-Lopes (2007), “A Benchmarking of the
Undergraduate Economics Major in Europe and in the United States”,
International Review of Economics Education 6 (2): 9-26 (lead article).
Publications in National Journals
- Monteiro, Henrique; Lopes, Alexandra Ferreira (2006), “Os currículos
portugueses comparados com os europeus”, in Cadernos de Economia,
JUL/SET, ANO XIX, Nº. 76. (in Portuguese);
- Ferreira, Alexandra; Rito, Alda; Sequeira, Tiago (2001), “Dynamics of the
Trade balance and the terms of trade: S Curve in Europe?”, in Prospectiva e
Planeamento, Departament of Prospective and Planning, Ministry of Finance,
Volume 7, November, pp. 187-230. (in Portuguese).
Other Work
- Lopes, Alexandra Ferreira (2003), “Business Cycles in the European Union: a
brief study of the cyclical behaviour of Member States”, October, in Dinâmia
Working Paper Nº2003/35, ISCTE, 20 pp. (in Portuguese).
- Ferreira, Alexandra; Pina, Álvaro; Dias, Ana; Saint Aubyn, Miguel; Lopes,
Emídio (2003), “Mid-term Evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of CSF
III (final report)”, Department of Prospective and Planning, Ministry of
Finance, September, 90 pp.
- Ferreira, Alexandra; Pina, Álvaro; Dias, Ana; Saint Aubyn, Miguel; Lopes,
Emídio (2003), “Mid-term Evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of CSF
III (preliminary report)”, Department of Prospective and Planning, Ministry
of Finance, September, 48 pp.
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Other Professional
Experience
Ferreira, Alexandra (2002), “Evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of
PIDDAC in 2001”, Department of Prospective and Planning, Ministry of
Finance, 3 pp.
- Lopes, Emídio; Ferreira, Alexandra (2002), “CSF Macroeconomic Evaluation
for the 1994-2000 period”, Department of Prospective and Planning,
Ministry of Finance, 9 pp.
- Lopes, Emídio; Ferreira, Alexandra (2002), PIDDAC Macroeconomic and
sectoral Evaluation for the 1994-2002 period”, Department of Prospective
and Planning, Ministry of Finance, 19 pp.
- Ferreira, Alexandra (2002), “A survey about methods for evaluating large
investment programs with supply side effects”, Department of Prospective
and Planning, Ministry of Finance, 94 pp.
Selected Referee Work
- China Economic Review
- DINÂMIA Working Papers Series
- Ecological Economics
- Economic Modelling
- Economics: The Open Access, Open Assessment E- Journal
- Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
- International Economic Journal
- Journal of Business Economics and Management
- Journal of Development Economics
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
- Journal of International Development
- Open Economies Review
- Papers in Regional Science
- Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies
- Social Indicators Research
Selected Conferences Presentations
IX Dynamic Macroeconomics Workshop held in Vigo, Spain; Conference on Money
and Finance at ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal; 9th annual conference of SPiE, ISCTE, Lisbon,
Portugal, Annual Conference of ASSET, Barcelona, Spain; 4 th annual conference of
the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS), Coimbra, Portugal; 22 nd
Symposium on Banking and Monetary Economics, Strasbourg, France; 20 th Annual
Conference of the European Economic Association (EEA), Amsterdam, Netherlands,
12th Annual Conference of the Society for Computation in Economics and Finance,
Limassol, Cyprus, 2nd German Macro Workshop, Frankfurt, Germany, New
Developments in Macroeconomic Modelling and Growth Dynamics Conference in
Algarve, 38th Money, Macro and Finance Conference, York, UK, ASSET Annual
Conference 2006, Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal, 1st Conference
of the Portuguese Economic Journal, Azores, Portugal, Infer Workshop on
Integration and Globalization: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries,
Coimbra, Portugal, ASSET Annual Conference 2007; Padua, Italy, 15th World
Congress of the International Economic Association, Istanbul, Turkey; 2nd
Conference of the Portuguese Economic Journal, Évora, Portugal, 4th Conference of
the Portuguese Economic Journal, Faro, Portugal; 25th Conference of the European
Economic Association, Glasgow, Scotland; 5th Conference of the Portuguese
Economic Journal, Aveiro, Portugal; ASSET Annual Conference 2011, Évora,
Portugal; 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Computation in Economics and
Finance, Prague, Czech Republic; 6th Conference of the Portuguese Economic
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Journal, Oporto, Portugal, 44th Annual Conference Money, Macro and Finance,
Dublin, Ireland; 7th Conference of the Portuguese Economic Journal, Covilhã,
Portugal.
Selected Conference Presentations (by invitation)
- CEFAGE – UE seminars (February 2013)
Selected Discussed Papers
- Patrícia Pereira da Silva, “Building a Regional Market: evidence from the
electricity supply industry”, in the Infer Workshop on Integration and
Globalization: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries,
Coimbra, Portugal, 29 and 30 of June, 2007.
- Nina Leheyda, “Determinants of Inflation in Ukraine: a Cointegration
Approach”, in the 22nd Symposium on Banking and Monetary Economics,
Strasbourg, France, 16 and 17 of June 2005;
- Luca Bindelli, “Systematic monetary policy and persistence”, in the 9th
annual conference of SPiE, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, 8 and 9 of October, 2004;
- Emanuel Leão, “Modelling the Central Bank Repo Rate in a Dynamic
General Equilibrium Framework”, in the 9th annual conference of SPiE,
ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, 8 and 9 of October, 2004;
Selected Academic Seminars
- Economics Department (ISCTE - IUL), Economics Department (ISEG - UTL).
Selected Professional Membership
- Effective Member of BRU - IUL
- Associate Member of CEFAGE-UBI
- Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN)
- European Economic Association (EEA)
- National Portuguese Economist’ Professional
Economistas)
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Committee and Administrative Work
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee of SPIE (Portuguese Society for
Research in Economics), ISCTE, Lisbon, 8 and 9 of October 2004.
- Co-organizer of Conferences about European and Portuguese Economy,
ISCTE - IUL, Lisbon.
- Organizer of the seminars of the Research Group in Economics (BRU – IUL)
– 2010/2011.
Honors, Scholarships, Scientific Projects
- Principal investigator of the exploratory project EXPL/IIM-ECO/0817/2013,
and Projects
denominated: “Currency Competition: Leaders and Wars”.
- Team Member of the Project PTDC/EGE-ECO/112499/2009, denominated:
”Education Mismatches and Productivity Differences”.
- Team Member of the Project PTDC/EGE-ECO/102238/2008, denominated:
”Externalities, Equilibriums, and Policy Lessons from Multi-Sector Models of
Endogenous Growth”.
- Team Member of the Project POCTI/ECO/48628/2002, denominated:”
Heterogeneous Agents and Complexity in Optimal Monetary Policy”.
Honors
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Supervising Work
Ph. D. and M.A.
Thesis Committees
Scientific Publication Awards granted by the IBS (ISCTE – IUL) for four
articles in C journals (April, 2014).
- Scientific Publication Awards granted by the IBS (ISCTE – IUL) for three
articles in C journals (March, 2013).
- Scientific Publication Awards granted by the IBS (ISCTE – IUL) for one
article in a B journal (March, 2012).
- Scientific Publication Awards granted by the IBS (ISCTE – IUL) for two
articles in B journals, 1 in a C journal, and 1 in a D journal (March, 2011).
- Unysis Research Award, best M.A. student in the field of Econometrics,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2001.
- The Portuguese “Fado”, for the German on-line magazine The European (with
Carlos Coimbra).
- Supervisor of the M.A. thesis in Portuguese Economics and International
Integration of Maria Cândida Sousa (December, 2012)
- Supervisor of the M.A. thesis in Portuguese Economics and International
Integration of Irina Melo (December, 2012)
- Co-supervisor of the M.A. thesis in Economics of Patrícia Covita (July, 2010).
- Supervisor of the B.A. thesis of Tatiana Ecetova (2004/2005).
Ph.D. Thesis Committees
- (March/2012) - Sandrina Berthault Moreira - “On the Measurement of
Development - Disaggregated and Composites Indicators with an Empirical
Application to Portugal”, (Ph.D. Thesis in Economics, ISCTE – IUL).
M.A. Thesis Committees
- (July/2014) - Ana Patrícia Costa Rodrigues Fazenda – “On the Relationship
between Religiosity and Technological Progress” (M.A. Thesis in Economics,
UBI).
- (January/2014) – Carla Sofia de Matos Noá – “Mortgage Debt and
Deleveraging: Cross-Sectional Evidence from the US Great Depression”
(M.A. Thesis in Monetary and Financial Economics, ISEG – UL).
- (December/2013) - Ricardo Miguel de Almeida Tavares – “Relation Between
Debt and Market Power – Evidence on Portuguese Firms”, (M.A. Thesis in
Economics of the Enterprise and Concurrence, ISCTE – IUL).
- (October/2013) – Diogo dos Santos Assis – “Poverty and Public Opinion
about the Social Insertion Income”, (M.A. Thesis in Portuguese Economics
and International Integration, ISCTE – IUL).
- (October/2013) – Ricardo Jorge da Conceição Ramos – “The
Internationalization of the Health Sector – The Portuguese Case”, (M.A.
Thesis in Economics of the Enterprise and Concurrence, ISCTE - IUL).
- (July/2013) - Tiago Alexandre Silva Minas - "Do Large Governments Decrease
Happiness? Evidence from European Countries", (M.A. Thesis in Economics,
UBI).
- (December/2012) – Carina de Lurdes Rodrigues Pais – “Banking Regulation
and Basel III: The Portuguese Case”, M.A. Thesis in Economics, ISCTE –
IUL).
- (December/2012) – Micaela da Costa Ferreira – “Design as an Innovation
Indicator: Study on the Activities of Design in the Portuguese Economy”
(M.A. Thesis in Portuguese Economics and International Integration, ISCTE
– IUL).
- (November/2012) – Filipa Inês Gil Silva – “The Impact of Renewable Energy
Sources on Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Iberian
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Administrative Work
Peninsula” (M.A. Thesis in Economics, ISCTE – IUL).
(October/2012) – Hugo Alexandre Pereira Barbacena – “The Globalization of
Tourism and the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations” (M.A. Thesis in
Portuguese Economics and International Integration, ISCTE – IUL).
(June/2012) – Marcelo Serra Santos – “Education, Educational Mismatch, and
Wage Inequality – Evidence for Different European Countries”, (M.A. Thesis in
Economics, UBI).
(December/2011) - Ana Paula Santos Leal Diogo – “A Long Times Series of
Inflation for Portugal - Analysis of the 1976-2010 period based on the CPI”,
(M.A. Thesis in Economics, ISCTE – IUL).
(December/2011) - Paulo Alexandre Louçada da Cruz Borges – “On the
Concept of Economic Centralization - An Application at the International
Level” (M.A. Thesis in Portuguese Economics and International Integration,
ISCTE – IUL).
(December/2011) - Timóteo Zacarias Duarte Ferreira – “International
Tourism – A Globalization Trend?” (M.A. Thesis in Portuguese Economics
and International Integration, ISCTE – IUL).
(November/2010) – José Luís Mendes Semedo – “What is the Impact of
Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy? The Case of Cape Verde” (M.A.
Thesis in Monetary and Financial Economics, ISCTE - IUL).
(December/2009) – Ricardo Pereira Barradas – “New Keynesian Model: An
Empirical Application to the Eurozone Economy” (M.A. Thesis in Monetary
and Financial Economics, ISCTE - IUL).
Other Committees
- Member of the committee for the attribution of the title of Specialist of Pedro
Domingos Custódio Rodrigues Alves, ISCAL - IPL (July/2013).
- Member of the committee for the attribution of the title of Specialist of João
Rui Ribeiro Paulo Salvado Querido, ISCAL - IPL (October/2013).
- Member of the Jury for the designation of a Science and Technology
Management Scholarship to BRU – IUL (June/2014, Ref. BRUIUL/BGCT03/2014).
- (March-June/2008) - Consumer Credit Benchmarking Study, for the Directorate
General for Health and Consumer Protection (DG SANCO), European
Commission (through the British consulting firm GHK Consulting Ltd.).
- Sub-Director of BRU – IUL since February 2014.
- Coordinator of the Research Group in Economics of BRU (ISCTE – IUL)
since February 2011 until January 2014.
- Executive Coordinator of the Master in Portuguese Economy and
International Integration (2009/2010).
- Scientific Coordinator of the “Specialization Course in Economics” (20072008 and 2008-2009).
- ERASMUS Coordinator for the Economics Department since July 2007 until
July 2010.
- Member of the IT council, representing the Economics Department from
2005 until the end of 2008.
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