José A. Tavares

Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CEPR

José Tavares is an Associate Professor of Economics (tenured) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Reasearch in London. José Tavares holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, specializing in macroeconomics with a political focus. José´s research work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics and the European Economic Review. José has worked on policy papers in books published by Harvard University Press, MIT Press and Cambridge University Press, as well as 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 in the European Union. José Tavares's work has received comments in the general press in the United States (New York Times, Transition) and in Portugal (Expresso, Público, Diário Económico).

Several examples of his papers are available at http://docentes.fe.unl.pt/~jtavares/