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, in 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.
Research
From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons (with Miguel Almunia, Agustín Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, and Kevin O'Rourke), Economic Policy, forthcoming. Working paper available as NBER WP 15524, CEPR DP 7564, and IIIS DP 303. (2009)
The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had...
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)