Fernando Alexandre
Fernando Alexandre is currently Minister of Education, Science and Innovation in the Portuguese Government.
Fernando holds a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London and is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Minho. He was Pro-Rector, Head of the School of Business and Economics, Director of the Department of Economics, and Secretary of State in the Portuguese Government from 2013 to 2015. He was also Vice-President of Conselho Económico e Social and member of the direction of Instituto +Liberdade. His research interests are macroeconomics, financial markets and the Portuguese economy. He authored or co-authored eight books, several book chapters and papers in journals such as Labour Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Regional Studies, The World Economy, Open Economies Review, Economics Letters, CESifo Economic Studies or Higher Education. He has acted as a consultant for private and public institutions, including the European Commission and the Portuguese Government. In 2022, he was awarded the University of Minho Scientific Merit Prize.
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New Working Paper: Digitalization: the edge of first movers. NIPE Working Paper 11/2023 (with Cátia Cerqueira and Miguel Portela).
New Working Paper: Investment Grants and Firms’ Productivity: How Effective Is a Grant Booster Shot? IZA DP No. 15779 (with Miguel Chaves and Miguel Portela)
New Working Paper: The elusive impact of R&D grants on firm productivity. NIPE Working Paper, 8/2023 (with Diogo Ferreira, Miguel Portela and Sandro Mendonça)
Selected publications:
The Portuguese Macroeconomic Policy Framework. In Fernandes, J. M., Magalhães, P. C., and Pinto, A. C. (Eds.). 2022. The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics. Oxford University Press. (with Pedro Bação)
The political economy of productivity growth. European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 75, December, 2022 (with Pedro Bação and Francisco Veiga).
Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust. Labour Economics, Volume 74, January, 2022 (with Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa and Miguel Portela).
Enhancing University-Industry collaboration: the role of intermediary organisations. The Journal of Technology Transfer, Volume 47, 1584–1611, 2022 (with Ana Paula Faria, Hélder Costa and Miguel Portela).
Do made in ao created in: um novo paradigma para a economia Portuguesa. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2021. Fernando Alexandre (Coordenação)
Financial Distress and the Role of Management in Micro and Small-Sized Firms. OCDE Productivity Working Papers, No. 27, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2021 (with Sara Cruz and Miguel Portela).
"Asymmetric regional dynamics in the Portuguese economy: debt, openness and local revenues", Regional Studies. Volume 55, 2, pp. 322-322, 2021 (with Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela and Miguel Rodrigues).
Como São os Portugueses. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020.
“Is the basic life-cycle theory of consumption becoming more relevant? Evidence from Portugal”, Review of Economics of the Household. March 2020, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 93-116. (with Pedro Bação and Miguel Portela).
Crise e Castigo e o dia seguinte - Os desequilibrios, o resgate e a recuperação da economia portuguesa. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2019. Prefácio de José Manuel Durão Barroso. (with Luís Aguiar-Conraria e Pedro Bação).
Assimetrias e Convergência Regional - Implicações para a Descentralização e Regionalização em Portugal. Associação Comercial do Porto, 2019. Fernando Alexandre (Coordenação), João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela e Miguel Rodrigues.
Investimento Empresarial e o Crescimento da Economia Portuguesa. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017. Fernando Alexandre (Coordenação), Pedro Bação, Carlos Carreira, João Cerejeira, Gilberto Loureiro, António Martins e Miguel Portela.
“Exchange rates, employment and labour market rigidity", The World Economy, vol. 40 (5), pp. 993-1011, 2017. (with Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela).
A Poupança e o Financiamento da Economia Portuguesa. Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda e Associação Portuguesa de Seguradores, 2017. (with Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro Bação e Miguel Portela).
“A Economia Portuguesa na União Europeia: 1986-2010”, 2014, Actual Editora. Fernando Alexandre, P. Bação, P. Lains, M. Martins, M. Portela e M. Simões (Orgs.). Prefácio de Carlos Costa.
“O euro e o crescimento da economia portuguesa: uma análise contrafactual”, Análise Social, 2012, Vol. XLVII (2.º), (N.º 203), pp. 236-502. (with Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Manuel Correia Pinho).
"Employment and exchange rates: the role of openness and technology", Open Economies Review, Vol. 22(5), pp. 969-984, 2011. (with Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela).
“Bubbles in exchange rates and monetary policy”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 58(1), pp. 29-50, 2011. (with Pedro Bação and John Driffill).
"Soft landing in a Markov-switching economy", Economics Letters, 107, pp. 169-172, 2010. (with Pedro Bação and Vasco Gabriel).
"Admission conditions and graduates’ employability", Studies in Higher Education, August, pp.1-11, 2009 (with Miguel Portela and Carla Sá).
"Perceptions of the Bologna process: what do students' choices reveal?", Higher Education, 58(4), pp. 465-474, 2009 (with Miguel Portela, Carla Sá and Ana Rute Cardoso).
"Aggregate and sector-specific exchange rate indexes for the Portuguese economy", Notas Económicas, 30, 2009 (with Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela).
“A Crise Financeira Internacional", Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and Lex Editora, Brazil, 2009. (with Ives Gandra Martins, João Sousa Andrade, Paulo Rabello de Castro and Pedro Bação).
"The Consumption-Wealth Ratio Under Asymmetric Adjustment", Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, vol. 12, 4, pp 1-32, 2008. (with Pedro Bação and Vasco Gabriel).
"Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process", CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 54(2), pp 229-247, 2008. (with Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela, Carla Sá).
"Evaluating student allocation in the Portuguese public higher education system", Higher Education, Vol. 56(2), pp 185-203, 2008 (with Nelson Areal, Carla Sá, Miguel Portela, João Cerejeira, Ana Carvalho and Artur Rodrigues).
"Volatility in asset prices and long-run wealth effect estimates", Economic Modelling, 24, pp. 1048-1064, 2007. (with Pedro Bação and Vasco Gabriel).
"Monetary policy, asset prices and uncertainty", Economics Letters, 86, pp. 37-42, 2005. (with Pedro Bação).
"Inflation Targeting, Exchange Rate Volatility and International Policy Co-ordination", The Manchester School, Vol. 70, nº4, pp. 546-569, 2002. (with John Driffill and Fabio Spagnolo).
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Scientific coordination and participation in documentaries:
"Longevidade – Desafios Económicos e Sociais", RTP / Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2022
"Ensino - O Desafio do Superior em Portugal", RTP / Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2022
"O que ficará dos fundos europeus?" RTP and Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (Prémio Jornalismo Fernando de Sousa), 2021
"Nós, Portugueses: Um futuro por desenhar" RTP and Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020
Articles and interviews: Participação no programa Fronteiras XXI, RTP3/FFMS (abril, 2017), Artigos no jornal económico ECO, Entrevista à revista Visão (setembro, 2017), Entrevista ao jornal Público (dezembro, 2017), Entrevista ao jornal Observador (abril, 2018), Entrevista ao jornal Público (2022).
Contacts:
Email: falex@eeg.uminho.pt
Tel: + 351 253604510
Mail address: Department of Economics, University of Minho,
Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal