"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

"On fait souvent du bien pour pouvoir impunement faire du mal"
"We frequently do good to enable us with impunity to do evil"
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes

"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; Development economics; Economics of entrepreneurship; Economics of terrorism and conflict; Economics of education

 

Journal Publications

[96] The path of terror attacks (2021) Games, 12, 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/ g12020035 (with D. Arce)
[95] Unveiling the endogeneity between social-welfare and labor efficiency: Two-stage NDEA neural network approach (2021) Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, forthcoming (with R.Moraes and P. Wanke)
[94] Informality, infrastructure investments and new firms' creation: The location strategy (2021) Journal of the Knowledge Economy, forthcoming (with M.Prado and J.J. Ferreira).

[90] The refugee game: The relationship between individual security expenditures and collective security (2020) Games 11, 24; doi:10.3390/g11020024 (with A. Novak, A. Bagchi and T. Mathews)

[89] The Peter and Dilbert principles applied to academe (2020) Economics of Governance 21, 115-132 (with F. Mixon)
[88] Agglomeration economies and university program creation in the knowledge economy (2020) Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, forthcoming (with F.Mixon, K. Johnson, J. Ferreira and P. Wanke)
[87] Leadership delegation in rotten kid families (2020) Journal of Population Economics  33, 441-460  (with Emilson Silva)

[86] Property confiscation and the intergenerational transmission of education post 1948 Eastern Europe (2020) Public Choice 184, 1-41 (with S. Caudill, S. Crofton, N.Manage, F.Mixon and M.Simonton)

[82] Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker-defender interactions (2019) Public Choice 179,  287-299 (with Timothy Matthews and Aniruddha Bagchi)
[8] Public policy and the university-industry R&D nexus (2019) Knowledge Management Research & Practice 17, 499-506  (with Franklin Mixon and Kamal Upadhyaya)

[80] Alumni donations and university reputation (2019) Education Economics 27, 155-165 (with F. Mixon and K. Upadhyaya)
[79] The green golden rule: Habit and anticipation of future consumption (2018) Economics Letters 172, 131-133 (with Peter McAdam)

[76] Editor reputation and journal quality: The case of regional association journals (2018) B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 20170099 (with  Franklin Mixon and Kamal Upadhyaya)
[75] Entrepreneurial philanthropy and university creation: An economic model (2018) Journal of the Knowledge Economy 9, 1067-1086 (with Franklin Mixon) 

[74] Academic research and the strategic ineraction of scholars and editors: A two-stage game  (2017) International Game Theory Review 19, 1, No. 1, 1650010  (with Damien Besancenot and Franklin Mixon) 

[70] Entrepreneur location decisions across industries (2015) International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 12, 985-1006 (with C. Fernandes, M. Raposo, J. Ferreira and R. Thurik)
[69] Macroeconomic adjustment under regime change: From social contract to Arab spring (2015) Journal of international Money and Finance 56, 1-22 (with Peter McAdam)

[68] Location clusters, FDI and local entrepreneurs: Consistent public policy (2015) Journal of the Knowledge Economy 7, 858-868
[67] Do remittances diminish social violence? (2015) Journal of Development Studies 51, 1309-1325 (with Gazi Hassan)

[66] The macroeconomy of Angola: Breaks and persistence in Angolan macro data (2015) Applied Economics 47, 2783-2802 (with Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana)

[64] Entrepreneurship and business cycles: Technological innovations and unemployment (2015) International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 11, 253-265.
[63] Inflation in Mozambique: Empirical facts based on persistence, seasonality and breaks (2014) Applied Economics 46, 2545-2555(with Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana)

[62] Congestion of academic journals under papers’ imperfect selection (2014) B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 14, 1145-1167 (with Damien Besancenot and Kim Huynh)
[61] Brazilian land tenure conflicts: A spatial analysis (2014) Journal of International Development 26, 409-421 (with Carlos Barros and Ari Araujo)

[60] Anticipation of future consumption: A monetary perspective (2013) Journal of Money Credit and Banking 45, 423-447 (with Peter McAdam)

[55] A new perspective on the gold standard: Inflation as a population phenomenon (2012) Journal of International Money and Finance 31, 1358-1370 (with Peter McAdam)

[54] Search and research: The influence of editorial board on journals' quality (2012) Theory and Decision 73, 687-702  (with Damien Besancenot and Kim Huynh)
[53] An economic model of workplace mobbing in academe (2012) Economics of Education Review 31, 720-726 (with Franklin Mixon and Sean Salter)
[52] Demographic dynamics in poor countries: Labor market conditions and gender inequalities (2012) Journal of Development Studies 48, 99-114 (with Adolfo Sachsida)

[51] From unemployed to entrepreneur: The role of absolute bequest motive (2012) Economics Letters 114, 120-123 (with Zhongmin Wu)
[50] 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)

[49] Counterterrorism and its impact on terror support and recruitment: Accounting for backlash (2012) Defence and Peace Economics 23, 431-445 (with Daniel Arce)

[48] A vintage model of terrorist organizations (2012) Journal of Conflict Resolution 56, 629-650  (with Daniel Arce)

[47] An integro-differential approach to terrorism dynamics (2011) Defence and Peace Economics 22, 595-605.
[46] Paradigm depletion, knowledge production and research effort: Considering Thomas Kuhn’s ideas (2011) Metroeconomica 62, 587-604 (with D. Besancenot and A.J.Novak)

[45] Returns to networking in academia (2010) Netnomics 11, 103-117 (with Rajeev Goel)
[44] Tobin's q and the US inflation (2010) Journal of Economics and Business 62, 401-418 (with Andre V. Mollick). 
[43] Entrepreneurship and unemployment: A nonlinear bidirectional causality? (2010) Economic Modelling 27, 1282-1291  (with Juan Carlos Cuestas and Estefania Mourelle)
[42] Good research and bad teaching? A business school tale (2010) Research in Economics 64, 67-72 (with Damien Besancenot)
[41] 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)

[40] Persistence in airline accidents (2010) Disasters 34, 1123-1138 (with Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana).
[39] Unemployment and entrepreneurship: A cyclical relation? (2009) Economics Letters 105, 318-320 (with Juan Carlos Cuestas and Luis Gil-Alana).
[38] Why Business Schools do so much research: A signaling Explanation (2009) Research Policy 38, 1093-1101 (with Damien Besancenot and Radu Vranceanu)
[37] 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).
[36] Persistent high ambition and substance abuse: A rationalization of a vicious circle (2008)  Journal of Economics  94, 261-274 (with Amnon Levy).
[35] 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).
[34] 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).
[33] Terrorism in Africa: Persistence and poverty (2008) Journal of Policy Modeling 30, 55-69 (with  Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana ).
[32] The tenure game: Building up academic habits (2008) Japanese Economic Review 59, 370-380 (with Goncalo Monteiro)
[31] Demographic and technological growth in tourism markets (2008) Tourism Economics 14, 115-121.
[30] 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)
[29] 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)
[28] Proliferation of academic journals: Effects on research quantity and quality (2007)Metroeconomica  58, 536-549 (with Rajeev Goel).
[27] Ramsey in dual-population lands: Internal conflict and utility-maximizing consumption (2007) Defence and Peace Economics 18, 339-352 (with Amnon Levy )
[26] Population and growth: Is there a puzzle ? (2006) Journal of Development Studies42, 909-917  (with M.Leon-Ledesma and A. Sachsida)
[25] Terrorist innovations and anti-terrorist policies (2006) Terrorism and Political Violence, 18, 47-56.

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

[23] The game academics play: Editors versus authors (2005) Bulletin of Economic Research57, 1-12.
[22] Real exchange rate and employment performance in an open economy (2005) Research in Economics 59, 67-80 (with Miguel Leon-Ledesma)
[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.

[46] On the Samaritan's dilemma, foreign aid and freedom (2018) Economies 6(4), 53 (with D. Arce)

[45] Human capital and collegiality in academic beehives: Theory and analysis of European economics faculties (2017) Theoretical and Applied Economics, forthcoming (with F Mixon and K. Upadhyaya) 

[44] The demand for money in Angola (2017) Journal of Economics and Finance 41, 408-420 (with C.P. Barros and L.G. Alana)

[43] The impact of the financial crisis and financial assistance in Portugal: Micro and macro foundations (2017) Global Business and Economics Review 19, 70-88  (with Pedro Mota Veiga and Joao Ferreira)
[42] The decision to moonlight: Does second job holding by the self-employed and employed differ? (2016) Industrial Relations Journal 47, 279-299 (with A. Atherton, D.Wheatley, D. Wu, Z.Wu)

[41] Farmer-entrepreneurs, agricultural innovation and explosive research and development cycles(2016) Administrative Sciences 6, 13 (with Franklin Mixon)
[40] Minority faculty hiring power in Academe: An economic model (2016) Review of Black Political Economy 43, 273-288 (with F. Mixon, A. Sachsida and P. Loureiro)

[39] Mozambique Metical exchange rate dynamics (2015) South African Journal of Economics 83, 569-575  (with C.P. Barros and L. Gil-Alana)
[38] Reverse FDI in Europe: An analysis of Angola's FDI in Portugal (2014) African Development Review 26, 160-171 (with Carlos Barros and Bruno Damasio)
[37] The economics of technology in terrorist organizations (2014) Brown Journal of World Affairs 20, 285-296. 
[36] Two-dimensional effort in patent-race games and rent-seeking contests: The case of telephony (2014) Games  5, 116-126 (with Franklin Mixon, Steven Caudill and Samantha Wineke).
[35] Entrepreneurship and unemployment cycles: A delay differential equation approach (2013) Frontiers of Economics in China 8, 288-292.
[34] Debts on debts (2012) North American Journal of Economics and Finance 23, 203-219 (with Le Wang and Zhongmin Wu)

[32] Most cited articles published in Brazilian journals of economics: Google Scholar rankings (2010) Revista EconomiA 11, 1-25

[31] Financiamento publico da frota brasileira autonoma de caminhoes (2010) Economia & Tecnologia 6, 125-137. (with C.H. Rocha)
[30] Capital and labor in the long-run: Evidence from Tobin's q for the U.S. (2010) Applied Economics Letters 17, 11-14. (with A.V. Mollick)
[29] Cultural heritage and growth (2008) Planejamento e Politicas Publicas 31,  7-19. (with M. Leon-Ledesma)
[28] Public support and terrorism: The Putin paradox (2008) Open Political Science Journal 1, 1-4.
[27] Employment and fertility choice: A differential game approach (2007) Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10 no. 9 pp. 1-8 (with Le Wang)