My full name is Gisela Maria Sobral Pinheiro Távora Rua and I was born in Porto,
Portugal. In 2003, I completed my "licenciatura" (5-year undergraduate program)
in Faculdade de Economia do Porto, which included a semester at the Corvinus University
of Budapest as an Erasmus exchange student. I learned Magyarul while I was there, but,
unfortunately, I'm forgetting it as time goes by. 

From 2003 to 2005, I was a teaching assistant at Universidade Católica Portuguesa,
Lisbon, for the undergraduate courses of Microeconomics I and II, Statistics, and
Industrial Organization. During that time, I completed the course work of the Research
Masters in Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 

I am now a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. My
research interests include international finance, macroeconomics, and financial
development.

Working Papers

From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons (with Miguel Almunia, Agustín Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, and Kevin O'Rourke) (2009)
 

The roots of political instability in the Portuguese First Republic: internal or external?, presented at the XXVI Congress of the Portuguese Association of Social and Economic History (2006)
 

Information asymmetry in mixed oligopolies [in Portuguese] (with Tiago Pinheiro), Centro de Matematica Aplicada da Universidade do Porto (2003)