José Tavares

José Tavares is a professor of conomics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Harvard University, specialising in Political Economy and Macroeconomics. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Catholic University. José's research focuses on a wide range of issues, including the relationship between democracy and economic growth, the macroeconomic cost of gender discrimination, and the role of globalisation in fighting corruption, and has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and volumes published by Harvard University Press, MIT Press and Princeton University Press.