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Short bio

The first degree in Economics was obtained from the ISEG – (Technical) University of Lisbon (1975) and the PhD (Doctorat d’État) from the University of Poitiers under supervision of André Chaîneau (1986). Is now Full Professor at the Faculty of Economy – University of Coimbra. JSA has held academic management posts at the Faculty and University level. He has participated in several ERASMUS and TEMPUS programs. He has integrated and also directed evaluation of FCT projects. He was a member of FUP and A3ES economics course evaluation teams. He has published several books in Portuguese for economics students, entries in international academic books and articles in international scientific journals (International Review of Applied Economics, Économie Appliquée, Journal of Economic Surveys, Applied Economics, Journal of Contemporary Issues in Economics and Business, International Journal of Economic Sciences, Panoeconomicus, Transition Studies Review, among other journals). JSA was visiting professor at Nice, Poitiers and Belgrade and is referee for some SCOPUS and ISI journals. He has participated in more than one thousand academic juries.

Supervision of PhD Students

(2020) Financial Development and Consumption
Economics
(ongoing) The Dutch Disease and the Balassa-Samuelson Effect in the Portuguese Economy: A Multi-Sector DSGE Approach
Economics

Publications

(2023) The Accrual Accounting Principle and its Implications for Portuguese Tax Courts Decisions. Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium, 13, 539 – 562.
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(2023) Human Capital and Labour Market Resilience: A Regional Analysis for Portugal. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 16, 1169 – 1193.
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(2023) Dynamic effects of financial development on economic activity. Applied Economics, 55, 3329 – 3346.
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(2022) Human capital and labour market resilience over time: a regional perspective of the Portuguese case. Eastern Journal of European Studies, 13, 26-59.
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(2022) Human Capital Disparities and Earnings Inequality in The Portuguese Private Labour Market. Social Indicators Research, 159, 145-167.
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(2020) Recent trends in Employees’ Earnings Inequality in Portugal. A quantitative analysis between 1986 and 2017. Panoeconomicus, 67, 333-360.
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(2019) A Monetary Analysis of the Liquidity Trap with an Application to the USA Economy. Contemporary Economics, 13, 446-470.
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(2019) Human capital and productivity growth in a services economy: Some insights from the Portuguese case. International Economics and Economic Policy, 16, 511-534.
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(2018) Health investments and economic growth: a quantile regression approach. International Journal of Development Issues, 17, 220-245.
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(2018) Education and health: welfare state composition and growth across country groups. Eastern Journal of European Studies, 9, 111-144.
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(2018) Perspectives de croissance pour le Portugal et la division Nord-Sud dans l'UE14: Une analyse à seuils selon le changement structurel. Revue de l'AIELF, 3, 153-174.
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(2017) Are PIIGS so different? An empirical analysis of demand and supply shocks. Panoeconomicus, 64, 189-222.
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(2017) Dutch Disease in Central and Eastern European Countries. In: Duarte, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Maria Adelaide Pedrosa da Silva (Ed.), Core-Periphery Patterns across the European Union: Case Studies and Lessons from Eastern and Southern Europe, (pp 113-141). Emerald Publishing Limited.
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(2017) Differences in human capital and openness to trade as barriers to growth and convergence in the EU. In: Cabral, Nazaré da Costa, Gonçalves, José Renato, Rodrigues, Nuno Cunha (Ed.), The Euro and the Crisis: Perspectives for the Eurozone as a Monetary and Budgetary Union, (pp 73-94). Springer.
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(2017) Dutch Disease in Central and Eastern European Countries. In: Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country, the Cambridge Centre for Economic, Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge (Ed.), 14th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy.
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(2016) The welfare state and economic performance: quantiles and nonlinearities. Applied Economics Quarterly, 62, 267-294.
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(2016) A thresholds analysis of growth, convergence and structural change in the EU: insights for Portugal. Estudos de Homenagem a José Silva Lopes, (pp 589-617). Coimbra: Almedina.
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(2016) Crowding-in and crowding-out effects of public investments in the Portuguese economy. International Review of Applied Economics, 30, 488-506.
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(2015) The Dutch Disease in the Portuguese and Spanish Economies. International Scientific Conference on Regional Development Policy: Scientific Basis and Empirical Evidence - Thematic Collection of Papers.
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(2015) Regional growth in Portugal: assessing the contribution of earnings and education inequality. In: Vuković, Darko, Hanić, Hasan (Ed.), Regional Development Policy: Scientific Basis and Empirical Evidence – Thematic Collection of Papers, (pp 198-201).
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(2015) Is There a Trade-off between Exchange Rate and Interest Rate Volatility? Evidence from an M-GARCH Model. In: Richet, Xavier, Hanić, Hasan, Grubišić, Zoran (Ed.), New Economic Policy Reforms, (pp 59-78). Belgrade: Belgrade Banking Academy.
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(2015) Enhancing Design Space Exploration by Extending CPU/GPU Specifications onto FPGAs. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 14, 1-23.
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(2015) Optimum Currency Areas, Real and Nominal Convergence in the European Union. Notas Económicas, 8-29.
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(2015) Regional growth in Portugal: Assessing the contribution of earnings and education inequality. Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic (SASA), 65, 239-252.
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(2015) Capital Mobility in the Enlarged Europe: A New Look at the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle using a Quantile Regression Approach. Revue d'économie politique, 125, 571-599.
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(2015) Social Spending and Income Inequality: Can Austerity Compromise Growth in the European Periphery?. In: Richet, Xavier, Hanić, Hasan, Grubišić, Zoran (Ed.), New Economic Policy Reforms, (pp 79-95).
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(2013) Productivity Growth and Convergence: Portugal in the EU 1986-2009. In: Santos, J.; St-Aubyn, M.; Lopes, J.; Santos, S. (Ed.), Estudos em Homenagem a João Ferreira do Amaral, (pp 83-128). Coimbra: Almedina.
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Contacts

Address

Faculdade de Economia
Universidade de Coimbra
Av. Dias da Silva, 165
3004-512
Portugal

Web and Email

Email
jasa@fe.uc.pt