FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Economic History, Political Economy, State Finance, Latin America
EDUCATION
2006-2011 PhD in Economic History, London School of Economics (LSE).
• Supervisor: Colin Lewis.
• Examiners: Stephen Haber and Rui Esteves.
2005-2006 MSc (Research) in Economic History, LSE.
2001-2003
MSc in Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
1996-2000 BSc in Economics, UFRJ.
1994-1995 Lexington High School, MA, USA.
EMPLOYMENT
2012- São Paulo School of Economics
(EESP FGV), associate professor.
2011-2012 Exclusive Analysis (EA), London, global economist.
2010-2011 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF),
Economics Department, visiting lecturer.
2008-2010 LSE, Economic History Department,
teaching and research assistant.
2004-2005 Pontifícia Universidade Católica
(PUC-Rio), Economics Department, visiting
lecturer.
PUBLICATIONS
Democracia negociada: política partidária no Brasil da Nova República, Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2024 (with Ferando Limongi).
“Democracy, Autocracy, and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk on the Peripheries of the Global Economy, 1870-1913.” Explorations in Economic History 85 (2022), pp. 1-21 (with Ali Coskun Tunçer).
“Dictatorships, Coffee, and Bananas: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1871-1911,” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 3 (2022), pp. 373-404.
“The West´s Teeth: IMF Conditionality during the Cold War", The World Economy, vol. 45, no. 7 (2022), pp. 2034-2051 (with Ariel Akerman and João Paulo Pessoa, cited in BBC Brasil).
“Slavery and Development in Nineteenth Century Brazil", Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2021), pp. 372-426 (with Nuno Palma, Andrea Papadia, and Thales Pereira).
“The Threat of Communism During the Cold War: A Constrain to Income Inequality,” Comparative Politics, vol. 52, no. 3 (2020), pp. 359-393. (with André Albuquerque Sant´Anna, cited in The Guardian and El Pais).
“Loans of the Revolution: How did Mexico Borrow as the State Collapsed in 1912-1913?,” Economic History Review, vol. 72, no. 3 (2019), pp. 1028-1047.
Sovereign Debt Crises and Negotiations in Brazil and Mexico, 1888-1914: Governments versus Bankers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
“Latin America,” in An Economist’s Guide in Economic History, edited by C. Colvin and M. Blum., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
“Economic Cycles in Brazil,” in Economic Cycles in BRICS, edited by S. Smirnov, A. Ozyildirim, and P. Picchetti, New York: Springer, 2018.
“Government versus Bankers: Sovereign Debt Negotiations in Porfirian Mexico, 1888-1910,” The Journal of Economic History, vol. 75, no. 4 (2015), pp. 1030-1056.
“Rothschilds’ ‘Delicate and Difficult Task:’ Reputation, Political Instability, and the Brazilian Rescue Loans of the 1890s,” Enterprise & Society, vol. 16, no. 2 (2015), pp. 381-412.
“Aderência: Liberalismo Econômico e Política Comercial Britânica em 1820-1913”, Revista de Economia Contemporânea, vol. 10, n. 3 (2006), pp. 491-516.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Domestic Public Debt in Emerging Markets from the First Financial Globalization to the Interwar. FAPESP-SNSF Grant, 2024-2027 (with Rui Pedro Esteves and Ali Coskun Tunçer).
Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: The Political Economy of Government-Creditor Relations in the First Age of Globalisation (with Ali Coskun Tunçer).
“Portuguese Rule in the Americas: Brazil, 1500-1822”, in The Routledge Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism, Edited by Ewout Frankema and Tirthankar Roy: Routledge, forthcoming (with Thales Pereira).
Entre crises: política econômica no Brasil da Nova República: FGV Editora, forthcoming.
BOOK REVIEWS
Powned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance, by Didac Queralt, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Journal of Economic History, vol. 82, no. 4 (2022), pp. 1231-1233.
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017, by Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini (eds.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. EH.net (2022).
Capital e Ideologia, by Thomas Piketty. Rio de Janeiro: Intrínsecam 2020. Revista de Economia Política e História Econômica, vol. 17, no. 46 (2021), pp. 182-186.
Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change, by Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. EH.net (2017).
The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence, by Luis Bértola and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 3 (2016), pp. 251-252.
FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Geneva Graduate Institute, FAPESP-SNSF visiting researcher.
2020-23 Estudos Econômicos, University of São Paulo, fellow editor,
2023 Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), visiting researcher.
2016-2021 University College London (UCL), Department of History, Newton fellow.
2015 Universidad Carlos III, Department of Social Science, Madrid, visiting fellow.
2013 Chinese Academy of Social Science, Young Scholars Summer School, Beijing.
2009 ESF-Globaleuronet Summer School, Lisbon.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024-2027 FAPESP-SNSF Grant.
2016-2020 Newton Grant, British Academy (£ 96,712).
2017 Best teacher of the year, São Paulo School of Economics.
2005-2009 Full PhD Scholarship, CAPES (Brazilian Consul for Higher Education).
RECENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2024, Seminar on Economic Development, IBEI.
Advanced Research Seminar, Université de Genève.
2023 Comments at Liberal Arts Seminar, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Santiago).
2022 Introduction of the lecture given by Oded Galor, The Journal of Humanity. São Paulo School of Economics.
2021 Seminário de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto.
2020 The Politics of Finance Workshop, Graduate Institute, Geneva; Global Economic History Seminar, Cambridge.
Economic History Association (EHA), online.
Economic History of Developing Regions Webinar.
2019 Brazilian Economic History Workshop Webinar (org.).
Economic History Society (EHS) Conference, Belfast.
2018 Brazilian Economic History Workshop, Insper.
Seminar in Economic History, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Social Science Seminar, CALTECH, Pasadena.
Workshop on Economic History, Universidad de la República, Montevideo.
World Economic History Congress, MIT, Boston (org.).
UCL-FGV Workshop on Politics and State Finance, UCL, London (org.).
Brazilian Economic History Workshop, Insper, São Paulo (org.).
Insper - Folha de S. Paulo Workshop, Insper, São Paulo.
2017 UCL-FGV Workshop on Politics and Sovereign Debt, FGV, São Paulo (org.).
School of Social Science, Université de Genève, Geneva.
Institute of Historical Research Seminar, University of London.
2016 EHS Conference, Cambridge.
British Academy Workshop, USP, São Paulo.
Latin American Economic History Congress (CLADHE), São Paulo (org.).
2015 Department of Social Science Seminar, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.
Department of Economic History Seminar, Universidad de Barcelona.
MEDIA
"Trump, protecionismo e a história como farsa", Folha de S. Paulo, 5 April 2025.
"Direita brasileira deixou de conter extremistas", Ilustríssima Conversa, Folha de S. Paulo, Podcast, 25 January 2025.
“Collor e o impeachment, Itamar, Plano Real", A Hora, UOL, Podcast, 10 January 2025.
"O poder executivo continua forte", O Globo, 24 January 2025.
"Presidencialismo de coalizão resiste, mas falta de agenda de Lula é desafio, avalia Fernando Limongi", Estado de S. Paulo, 12 January 2025 (with Fernando Limongi).
"Democracia Negociada", Foro de Teresina, Revista Piauí, podcast, 26 December 2025 (with Fernando Limongi).
"Governo Sarney, a Constituinte, militares e mais com Fernando Limongi e Leonardo Weller", A Hora, UOL, podcast, December 2025, (with Fernando Limongi).
"País poderia ter agido antes contra extremismo, fiz Fernando Limongi", Valor Econômico, 02 December 2024 (with Fernando Limongi).
"O que Bolsonaro tem na cabeça ao declarar que o Brasil está quebrado?" Folha de S. Paulo, 14 January 2021.
"A crise da covid-19 na história e próximos desafios", Live do Valor, Valor Econômico, podcast, June 2021.
"O populismo econômico de Bolsonaro" Folha de S. Paulo, 4 December 2020
"Epidemias deixam a economia combalida desde a idade média", Folha de S. Paulo, 20 May 2020, (com André Albuquerque Sant´Anna).
"Ditadura não é saída para gerar desenvolvimento econômico", Ilustríssima, Folha de S. Paulo, podcast, 19 January 2020.
"Gasto público e crescimento", Valor Econômico, 29 October 2019 (com Marcelo Kfoury Muinhos)
"O Fracasso do PSDB e MDB Coloca a Democracia em Risco", Folha de S. Paulo, 14 February 2019.
"O Regime Militar não foi bom para o Brasil", Estado de S. Paulo, 3 April 2018.
"A Lava Jato e o tombo do investimento", Estado de S. Paulo, 18 April 2017.
"O abismo da Previdência", Estado de S. Paulo, 19 January 2017.
"Pacto Fiscal III: Lula, Dilma e a oportunidade perdida", Estado de S. Paulo, 3 January 2017.
"Pacto Fiscal II: ditadura, democracia e elitização", Estado de S. Paulo, 23 December 2016.
"Pacto fiscal I: a origem do desequilíbrio das contas públicas", Estado de S. Paulo, 13 December 2016.
SUPERVISIONS AND VIVAS
Postdoc: Michel Marson (2018); PhD: Bruno Sales (ongoing); Masters: Bruno Sales, Guilherme Carter, Ciro Souza, Vitor Casarotto (2023); André Luis de Jesus (2022); Marco Campanari, Giselle Figueiredo, Itanielson Cruz (2020); Ariel Akerman, Renan Hortz, Roberto Sessa (2019); Alishan Kahn, Renato Pellegrini (2018); Gustavo Verhalen (2017); Undergraduate: Pedro Henrique Costa (2020); Lucas Diniz (2018); Victor Nasser, João Pugliese (2017); Matheus Mariano, Mariana Ferrari (2015); Diogo Baptista (2012); Vivas: Heleno Piazentini, PhD, EESP-FGV (2014), Ricardo Janovitz, Msc, INSPER (2013).
TEACHING
Topics in Economic History (postgrad)
Brazilian Economics (postgrad)
Brazilian Economic History (undergrad)
Global Economic History (undergrad)
Economic History of Inequality (undergrad)
LANGUAGES
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (advanced)