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Susana Peralta and Francesco Franco participates to a 2 days event organised by ECO on the future of the financing of the Social Security. See the video conference: Video

Susana Peralta, Bruno Carvalho and João Pereira dos Santos have a new working paper where they investigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in private consumption in Portugal. Using monthly data from sybs, the main provider of point of sale terminals and on-line payments in Portugal, they investigate the break in individual transactions by comparing […]

Professors Pedro Brinca and João Duarte, alongside FED investigator Miguel Ferreira-e-Castro have developed a model to measure labour demand and supply shocks during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on data from the months of April and May (The Great Lockdown). Results show that a a significnt extent of the shock in labour working […]

Professor Pedro Pita Barros speaks about the Public Healthcare response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we can expect for the future of the portuguese National Health Service. The importance of swift decision making, the possibility of alternative avenues to fight future pandemics and the pandemics’ effect on future discussions regarding the National Health Service […]

Professor José Tavares speaks to journalist Pedro Santos Guerreiro about the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in Europe and what we can expect of the coming changes in the european landscape. The (excessive?) European dependence on imports from Asia – particularly China -, the possible changes in consumption preferences, the importance of symmetric decision making […]

Professor José Tavares writes for Jornal Económico on the main European guidelines for the Political and Social response to the Covid-19 crisis. “In politics, as in literature, common fictions are important and “imagined communities” provide an ever important sense of support and meaningfulness. In Europe, we have still not been able to build a consensual […]

Professor Susana Peralta speaks with journalist Pedro Santos Guerreiro regarding the role of taxes and social inequality as a response to the (almost invevitable) economic recession. The extent of state help to businesses, the expected growth in inequality and the possibility of future austerity measures to pay-out “Covid debt” (what kind of taxes can be […]

Professor Susana Peralta gives her take on the impact the Covid-19 crisis had on inequality – and how lockdown measures are being particularly harmful for the poorer social classes. In her words, “The Great Lockdown shows how the world is divided between those who live a comfortable life and those who live a disgraced one”. […]

Professor Susana Peralta will be part of a newly announced workgroup tasked with the revaluation of the Portuguese Budgetary Framework Law. The group is headed by Professor Fernando Rocha Andrade and still inlcudes Cláudia Braz, Tiago Melo and Sofia Batalha. The group is intended to evaluate the implementation of the new Budget Framework, with particular […]

In this video, Professor Francesco Franco presents a paper on how to promote employment and growth in the European context.