Outreach

Projects I am (or was) involved with - mostly in Portuguese and about bridging economics to wider audiences.

The Portuguese Business Cycle Dating Committee

I am part of a committee of economists, chaired by Ricardo Reis (LSE) and funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos — that dates the peaks and troughs of the Portuguese business cycle. It was set up in 2020 as the Portuguese counterpart to the NBER and CEPR dating committees.

The committee has produced over a century of business-cycle analysis (1910–present), collected in the book Crises in the Portuguese Economy.

Real GDP of Portugal, 1910–1980, index 100 = 1953, with dated recessions shaded — Real GDP (constant 1953 prices, index 100 = 1953), 1910–1980. Shaded bands mark dated recessions. Sources: Batista et al. (1997); Matias & Carvalho (2021) and Valério (2001).

Real GDP per capita of Portugal, 1980–2022, with dated recessions shaded — Real GDP per capita (thousands of 2016 euros, chained volumes), 1980–2022. Shaded bands mark dated recessions.

Book. Portuguese Business Cycle Dating Committee — Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro Bação, Isabel Horta Correia, José Alberto Ferreira, Ricardo Reis, José Tavares, Nuno Valério and José Varejão (January 2024), Crises in the Portuguese Economy: from 1910 to 2022, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. ISBN 978-989-9153-32-5.
[English · Português]

See also the committee's project page and its recession chronology & documents.

Short documentary: the Portuguese Economy 1974-2024

I was the main scientific advisor for this short documentary that traces out the main changes in the Portuguese economy under democracy (in Portuguese).

[IN]Pertinente — Podcast

For a year (12 episodes), I was the invited economist on [IN]Pertinente, a podcast from the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos aimed at debunking economics for general audiences.

Selected episodes