Isabel Horta Correia is currently a professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics at UCP. She developed her research career for almost 30 years at the Economic Studies Department of the Banco de Portugal, which she directed for 5 years.
Her general area of interest is Macroeconomics, namely in the subareas of economic cycles, monetary economics, optimal fiscal and monetary policies, and redistributive impacts of economic policy.
Isabel’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the European Economic Review.
She was a research reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a member of the evaluation panels for the European Research Council's Advanced Grants. She was also a member of the European Economic Association Council; of the Portuguese Catholic University’s Scientific Society; of the Scientific Advisory Board of CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, and of the European University Institute's Research Council.
She is currently a correspondent for the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research and the European Economic Association.

Last updated: October 2023