José Tavares holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, is full professor of Economics at Nova SBE, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), in London. His research focuses on a broad set of issues, ranging from the relationship between democracy and economic growth to the macroeconomic cost of gender discrimination, and has been published in various academic journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and in volumes by Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press, and Oxford University Press.
José´s academic work has been commented in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Handelsblatt, La Repubblica, and discussed in specialised op-ed sites such as Vox.eu and Eurointelligence. José also co-edited the volume «After the Crisis Reform, Recovery, and Growth in Europe», with Francesco Caselli and Mário Centeno, and authored the essay «A Europa Não É Um País Estrangeiro» («Europe Is Not A Foreign Country»), a discussion about the past and future of Europe as an idea.

Last updated: October 2023