Heavy-Tails and Robust Estimation in Economics and Finance

“Heavy-Tails and Robust Estimation in Economics and Finance” conference will be held on May 24 and 25 at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Carcavelos, Portugal.

In an interview to portuguese newspaper “Público”, Francesco Franco talks about his concerns on Italy’s government and the country banking system, in contrast with what happened in Portugal.

From Bretton Woods to Brexit, a timely take on the importance of global economic cooperation.

It is hard to track the coming and going of politicians between public office and private corporations. This visualization, detailing the sequential private and public affiliations of Portuguese politicians, between 1975 and 2013, may help.

Not sure the yield curve “predicts the future”, but this is one of thecoolest visualizations in economics, charting the yield of US titles of different maturities in the last 25 years. And more.

Time magazine on the Price of Sexism: a discussion of the economic cost of gender discrimination, with reference to the paper by Tiago Cavalcanti and José Tavares “The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination”

In a brief one and a half minute, José Tavares discusses the opportunity of introducing gender quotas in politics, taken into account his research with Paulo Júlio

The new IMF DataMapper is really cool and useful.It makes available a wide selection of key economic indicators from 12 of the organization’s datasets.

In her recent article “I want to climb the social ladder” for the newspaper Publico, Susana Peralta discusses the results of a recent study about social mobility in Portugal. (…)

Susana Peralta wrote an article calling for the participation of citizens in local politics – voting on the municipal elections of October 1st is the the most important act of participation, but not the single one. (…)