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Pedro Brinca was on CNN to discuss the recent drop in foreign direct investment in Portugal. Also on CNN, he talked about the BRICS summit and its implications for the world economics.

Pedro Martins spoke to Expresso about the high average number of work hours in Portugal. Also to Expresso, he commented on Portuguese companies and remote work

José Tavares’ essay “Os desafios da Inteligência Artificial da Democracia” was published in Revista E (Expresso)

“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.

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Ricardo Reis, professor and economist at London School of Economics, was the peer review of this study by Francesco Franco et al.

Save the date: 22-4-2021 for an online round table on Unconditional Basic Income jointly organised by CEPS- University of Minho and Economics For Policy. Link: Event on the 22-4-2021: unconditional-basic-income-can-we-afford-it

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.

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