Current Position
Luís A.V Catão is an Associate Professor of Macroeconomics in the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) of the University of Lisbon and Researcher at the Research in Economics and Mathematics (REM) unit in the same university. He was previously a Senior Economist and Acting deputy division chief in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. His research spans international finance and open economy macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on business cycles, monetary and exchange rate policy, and sovereign risk. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering as well as a BA in Economics (with honors) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an MPhil and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and other specialized journals. His work has received press coverage by The Economist, Dow Jones News, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Valor Econômico, and Exame. Dr Catão’s previous appointments include a Senior Economist position in the Office of the Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, an Associate Professorship at the University of London, and a Research Fellowship in the Latin American Institute of the same University. NEW RESEARCHNew Book
Meeting Globalization's Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All. Princeton University Press, Forthcoming [Joint editor with Maurice Obstfeld]. Recent Publications Default Premium, Journal of International Economics, 107, pp. 91-110. [Joint with Rui Mano] Fiscal Discoveries and Yield Decouplings, IMF Economic Review 65(4), pp. 704-44 [Joint with Ana Fostel and Romain Rancière]. Reforms and External Balances in Southern Europe and Ireland, in Manassas, P and Katsikas, D (eds), Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe, Routledge, 2018. Recent Working Papers "Capital Account Liberalization and the Composition of Bank Liabilities," Working Papers REM 2018/53, ISEG/UECE/REM, Universidade de Lisboa. [Joint with Daniel Te Kaat] International Financial Integration and Funding: Bank-Level Evidence from Latin America [Joint with Valeriya Dinger and Daniel Te Kaat]. Financial De-dollarization: A Global Perspective and the Peruvian Experience IMF Working paper WP 16/97 [Joint with Marco Terrones]. Work in Progress Test-Benching Current Account Models [Joint with Allan Timmermann] Financial Frictions and International Risk Sharing [Joint with Roberto Chang] This time has been different: Capital Flows and Crisis Resilience in Emerging Markets [Joint with R. Bems, Z. Kóczán, W. Liam, and M. Poplawski Ribeiro] Does Inflation Targeting Reduce Capital Flow Volatility? Short Pieces Dollar Dependence, Finance and Development [Joint with Marco Terrones] To Pay the Piper, Finance and Development [Joint with Rui Mano] Measuring the Interest Premium for Past Default VOX-EU [Joint with Rui Mano] External Liabilities and Crisis Risk, VOX-EU [Joint with Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti] Read Finance and Development’s
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Luís A.V. Catão
Associate Professor
Lisbon School of Economics and Management University of Lisbon
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