José Tavares is an associate professor of economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. José holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and has specialized in Macroeconomics with a focus on the political economy of fiscal policy and economic growth. His research has been published in academic journals in Europe and the United States, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics and the European Economic Review and as part of volumes edited by Harvard University Press, MIT Press and Cambridge University Press. José has co-edited two books on economic policy, Investir no Futuro, on comparative research policy in Portugal and the United States and Portugal: Strategic Options in European Context, on the economic and political aspects of Portuguese integration into the European Union. José has undertaken research projects for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Banco de Portugal. His work has received comments in the general press in the United States (New York Times) and in Portugal (Diário Económico, Expresso, Público).
Articles
Assessing the "Engines of Liberation": Home Appliances and Female Labor Force Participation (with Tiago Cavalcanti), Review of Economics and Statistics (2008)
The recent literature on the macroeconomics of structural change has highlighted the importance of the...
Trade, Factor Proportions and Politics, Review of Economics and Statistics (2008)
This paper tests the implication in Mayer (1984) that capital-poor individuals prefer more trade openness...
Exchange Rates and Fiscal Adjustments: Evidence from the OECD and Implications for the EMU (with Luisa Lambertini), Contributions in Macroeconomics (2007)
This paper investigates whether monetary and exchange rate policies are important for the success of...
Institutions and Economic Development in Brazil (with Tiago Cavalcanti and André Magalhães), Quarterly Review of Economic and Finance (2007)
This paper investigates the effects of institutional reforms in Brazil. It first provides a comparative...
Does Foreign Direct Investment Decrease Corruption? (with Felipe Larraìn B.), Cuadernos de Economia (2004)
This paper assesses the effect of openness on corruption, using foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows...
Books
Investir no Futuro - Colaborações Universidade Indústria em Portugal e nos EUA (with Francisco Veloso, Nuno Vasconcelos, Paulo Ferreira, and Pedro Conceição) (2003)
Portugal: Strategic Options in European Context (with Fátima Monteiro, Miguel Glatzer, and Ângelo Cardoso) (2003)
Unpublished Papers
Budget Deficits and Reelection Prospects: Voters as Fiscal Conservatives in a New Democracy (with Paulo Arvate and George Avelino) (2007)
State elections in Brazil are an excellent laboratory to test the fiscal preferences of voters...
Can Openness Deter Corruption? (with Felipe Larraìn B.) (2007)
The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption levels discourage FDI inflows. In this...
Economic Integration and the Co-movement of Stock Returns (with Pedro Morgado) (2007)
In this paper we analyze the determinants of co-movements in stock returns among 40 developed...
Government Size versus Government Efficiency in a Model of Economic Growth (with Francisca Guedes de Oliveira) (2007)
The Economics of Terrorism: What We Know, What We Should Know and the Data We Need (with Fernanda Llussá) (2007)
Probably, and unfortunately also for the worst reasons, terrorism will be high on the political...