"It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character,
not our opinion about good or evil "
- Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics
 
"What use of valor can be made,
When heav'n's propitious pow'rs refuse their aid!"
- Virgil, Aeneid

"The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones"
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

 "Il est dur d'etre gueux, tandis qu'il y a tant de sots opulents aux dipens desquels on peut vivre".
"It is hard to be a pauper while there are so many wealthy idiots you can live on"
- Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

 "Enquanto houver otario no mundo, malandro nao morre de fome"
"As long as there are suckers alive, con men shall never starve "
- Bezerra da Silva, Brazilian free-thinker

 "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face".
- Mike Tyson, Philosopher

 

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Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1998 
MA Economics, University of Brasilia, 1991
BA Economics, University of Brasilia, 1988
BA Geography, University of Brasilia, 1987

 

Research 

Macroeconomics; Economics of entrepreneurship; Economics of terrorism and conflict; Economics of academia

 

Journal Publications

 

[55] Search and research: The influence of editorial board on journals' quality (2012) Theory and Decision, forthcoming (with Damien Besancenot and Kim Huynh)
[54] Demographic dynamics in poor countries: Labor market conditions and gender inequalities (2012) Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming (with Adolfo Sachsida)
[53] From unemployed to entrepreneur: The role of absolute bequest motive (2012) Economics Letters 114, 120-123 (with Zhongmin Wu)
[52] Do Central Banks affect Tobin's q? (2012)  International Review of Economics and Finance 22, 1-10 (with Andre Mollick, Adolfo Sachsida and Le Wang)

[51] Counterterrorism and its impact on terror support and recruitment: Accounting for backlash (2012) Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming (with Daniel Arce)

[50] A vintage model of terrorist organizations (2012) Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming (with Daniel Arce)

[49] An integro-differential approach to terrorism dynamics (2011) Defence and Peace Economics 22, 595-605.

[48] Paradigm depletion, knowledge production and research effort: Considering Thomas Kuhn’s ideas (2011) Metroeconomica 62, 587-604 (with D. Besancenot and A.J.Novak)

[47] Returns to networking in academia (2010) Netnomics 11, 103-117 (with Rajeev Goel)
[46] Tobin's q and the US inflation (2010) Journal of Economics and Business 62, 401-418 (with Andre V. Mollick). 
[45] Entrepreneurship and unemployment: A nonlinear bidirectional causality? (2010) Economic Modelling 27, 1282-1291  (with Juan Carlos Cuestas and Estefania Mourelle)
[44] Good research and bad teaching? A business school tale (2010) Research in Economics 64, 67-72 (with Damien Besancenot)
[43] Capital and labor mobility and their impacts on Mexico’s regional labor markets (2010) Journal of Development Studies 46, 1523-1542 (with Rene Cabral and A.V. Mollick)

[42] Persistence in airline accidents (2010) Disasters 34, 1123-1138 (with Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana).
[41] Unemployment and entrepreneurship: A cyclical relation? (2009) Economics Letters 105, 318-320 (with Juan Carlos Cuestas and Luis Gil-Alana).
[40] Why Business Schools do so much research: A signaling Explanation (2009) Research Policy 38, 1093-1101 (with Damien Besancenot and Radu Vranceanu)
[39] The effect of oil price on China's exports (2009) China Economic Review 20, 793-805 (with A.V. Mollick, P.H. Albuquerque and M. Leon-Ledesma).
[38] Persistent high ambition and substance abuse: A rationalization of a vicious circle (2008)  Journal of Economics  94, 261-274 (with Amnon Levy).
[37] A simple nonlinear dynamic model for unemployment: Explaining the Spanish case (2008) Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Article ID 981952, 11 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/981952 (with M. Leon-Ledesma).
[36] Can globalization stop the decline in commodities' terms of trade? The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis revisited (2008) Cambridge Journal of Economics 32, 683-701 (with A.V. Mollick, P.H. Albuquerque and M. Leon-Ledesma).
[35] Terrorism in Africa: Persistence and poverty (2008) Journal of Policy Modeling 30, 55-69 (with  Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana ).
[34] The tenure game: Building up academic habits (2008) Japanese Economic Review 59, 370-380 (with Goncalo Monteiro)
[33] Demographic and technological growth in tourism markets (2008) Tourism Economics 14, 115-121.
[32] Negatively correlated author seniority and the number of acknowledged people: Name-recognition as a signal of scientific merit? (2008) Journal of Socio-Economics 37, 1234-1247 (with Nathan Berg)
[31] Employment and fertility choice: A differential game approach (2007) Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10 no. 9 pp. 1-8 (with Le Wang)
[30] Are U.S. citizens at risk of terrorism in Europe? (2007) Defence and Peace Economics18, 495-507  (with Carlos Barros, Isabel Proença and Luis Gil-Alana)
[29] Proliferation of academic journals: Effects on research quantity and quality (2007)Metroeconomica  58, 536-549 (with Rajeev Goel).
[28] Ramsey in dual-population lands: Internal conflict and utility-maximizing consumption (2007) Defence and Peace Economics 18, 339-352 (with Amnon Levy )
[27] Population and growth: Is there a puzzle ? (2006) Journal of Development Studies42, 909-917  (with M.Leon-Ledesma and A. Sachsida)
[26] Terrorist innovations and anti-terrorist policies (2006) Terrorism and Political Violence, 18, 47-56.

[25] Terror support and recruitment (2005) Defence and Peace Economics 16, 263-273 (with Daniel Arce)

[24] The game academics play: Editors versus authors (2005) Bulletin of Economic Research57, 1-12.
[23] Real exchange rate and employment performance in an open economy (2005) Research in Economics 59, 67-80 (with Miguel Leon-Ledesma)
[22] Profitability, investment and efficiency wages (2005) Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 4, 201-211.
[21] Trade liberalization, nature of mergers and employment (2005) Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 14, 43-63. (with Halis Yildiz)
[20] Leading by example and international collective action (2005) Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, 51-63. (with Andre Rossi de Oliveira and Daniel Arce)
[19] The effects of taxes on labor in a dynamic efficiency wage model (2004) Japanese Economic Review, 55, 286-297.
[18] Habit formation, working habits and technological progress (2004)  Manchester School, 72, 403-413 (with Miguel Leon-Ledesma)
[17] Terror cycles (2003) Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 7, No.1, Article 3.
[16] Testing the Balassa-Samuelson effect: Implications for growth and PPP (2003) Journal of Macroeconomics 25, 241-253 (with Miguel Leon-Ledesma )
[15] Limit cycles in an optimal control problem of Diabetes (2003) Applied Mathematics Letters 16, 127-130.
[14]  Scientific, business and political networks in academia (2002) Research in Economics 56, 187-198.
[13] The dynamic efficiency of the Ramsey model with endogenous labour participation rate (2001) Optimal Control Applications and Methods 22, 145-149.
[12] Habit formation in a monetary growth model (2001) Economics Letters 73, 51-55. 
[11] Markup, indexation and inflation: A bargaining approach (2001) Economic Modelling 18, 313-323.