Identification:
Name: João Paulo Cabral Pereira
Born: 05-12-1970 in Mozambique.
Citizenship: Portuguese
Divorced, One Daughter
Education:
Since 2008 - Phd Student (part-time) in Economics at ISEG -Technical University of Lisbon.
2004 - Msc in Economics at ISEG -Technical University of Lisbon. Thesis defended: "A Medição do Capital Humano em Portugal".(Measuring Human Capital in Portugal). (Click here to download - in portuguese)
1995 - Post-Graduate Diploma in Análise Financeira (Financial Analysis) at ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon
1994 - "Licenciatura" (first degree) in Economics at ISEG -Technical University of Lisbon
Research interests:
Economic Growth, Ageing, Life-Cycle, Human Capital
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
"What Level of Education Matters Most for Growth? Evidence from Portugal" 2009 Economics of Education Review, nº 28, pp 67-73, with Miguel St. Aubyn.
"Measuring Human Capital in Portugal" 2005, Notas Económicas, nº 21, Jun. pp 16-35.
Working Papers:
"What Level of Education Matters Most for Growth? Evidence from Portugal" 2004, Working Paper WP13/2004/DE/UECE. ISEG (click here for pdf)
Most Relevant Professional Experience:
Since 2007 - Customs Officer at the Ministry of Finance of Portugal (Department of Customs Regulation).
2006/2007 - Economist at the Ministry of Economy of Portugal (Department of Strategy and Research).
2001/2006 - Customs Officer at the Ministry of Finance of Portugal (Department of Excise Duties).
2001 - Information Technology Consultant at Consulteam (Software SAP) - Lisbon
Specialized in the Consolidation Module EC-CS
1999/2000 - Information Technology Consultant at Datinfor (Software EXACT) - Lisbon
1997/1999 - Money Market and Foreign Exchange Dealer at Banco Privado Português - Lisbon
Trading in Eurodeposits and the Interbank Money Market
Trading in foreign exchange: spot, swaps and options
Trading in repos
Trading in emerging markets short term notes
Trading in Forward Rate Agreements
1995/1996 - Money Market Dealer at Banco Nacional Ultramarino - London Branch
Trading Eurodeposits and Interbank Money Market
Arbitrage with Forward Rate Agreements
1994/1995 - Money Market and Foreign Exchange Dealer Trainee at Banco Nacional de Crédito Imobiliário - Lisbon
Trading in Eurodeposits and the Interbank Money Market
Hedging foreign exchange operations: spot and outright
1992/1994 - Computer Assistant (part-time) at ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon
Foreign Languages:
English - Very good
Spanish - Fair (reading and oral)
French - Fair (reading)
Computer Skills:
Wolfram Mathematica
LaTeX
The usual MS Office Professional applications
Seminars/Conferences/Workshops:
Attended and with paper presented:
- 18/19-11-2005. Co-presenter of "What Level of Education Matters Most for Growth? Evidence from Portugal" with Miguel St. Aubyn, at the XXV Meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (Portuguese Association of Social and Economic History).
- 03/04-08-2009. Presentation of "Life-Cycle Leisure, Labour and Learning with Age-Dependent Mortality" at the 4th International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications, Athens Institute for Education and Research.
- 30-10-2009. Presentation of "Life-Cycle Leisure, Labour and Learning with Age-Dependent Mortality" at the International Workshop on the Socio-Economics of Ageing, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon.
Attended:
- 08-04-2005. Seminar “Education – Which Means for which results?”, at Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão.
- 20/22-07-2006. Course “Applied Time Séries Econometrics” by Prof. Helmut Lutkepohl, at the Summer School of ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon.
- 10/14-04-2007. Participation in the “Workshop on Mathematical Control Theory and Finance”, at ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
- 25-05-2007. Participation in the 6th Meeting on Social Security and Complementary Pensions Systems, “Pension Fund Asset Management” at ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon.
- 29-09-2008 to 01-10-2008. Participation on the "III Congress on Portuguese Demography", at Fundação Gulbenkian.
- 27-06-2010 to 01-07-2010. Attended the Summer School course "Matlab" at ISEG.