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Since 2020   Reader, EMS, Birkbeck University of London

2018-2020    Senior Lecturer, EMS, Birkbeck University of London.

2017-2018    Lecturer B, EMS, Birkbeck University of London.

2010-2017    Assistant Professor, Dept. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

2012-2013    Visiting Lecturer, Dept. Economics, University of Essex. 

2006-2010 Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics.

2005-2006 Master of Research in Economics, with Distinction, at the London School of Economics.

2004-2005 Master of Science in Economics, with Distinction, at the London School of Economics. 

1999-2003 Degree in Economics, with Honors, at the Lisbon Technical University. 

[2001] Erasmus exchange program at the Free University of Amsterdam, with honors.

Center for Macroeconomics (associate); 

IZA Institute of Labour Economics (fellow); 

Higher Education Academy (fellow); 

Royal Economic Society, 

European Economic Association, 

American Economic Association, 

European Association of Labour Economists.

Books

Friday is the New Saturday, Flint, 2021. 

• Translated to Portuguese, 2022 (Relógio D'Água).

• Translated to Korean, 2022 (Nexus).

• Translated to Italian, 2023 (Laterza)

Refereed journals

“Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-level interactions and macroeconomic implications”, Conditionally Accepted Economic Journal, 2023, With L. Allub and Z. Kuehn

Chassamboulli, A., P. Gomes (2023), “Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions,” Labour Economics, forthcoming.

Camilli, A., P. Gomes (2023), “Public employment and homeownership dynamics,” Public Choice,  194, 101–155.

Garibaldi, A.,  Gomes, P. and Sopraseuth, T. (2021) "Public Employment Redux" Journal of Government and Economics, 1, forthcoming.

Chassamboulli, A.,  and Gomes, P. (2021) "Jumping the queue: nepotism and public-sector pay" Review of Economic Dynamics, 9, 344-366.

Chassamboulli, A.,  Fontaine, I. and Gomes, P. (2020) "How important are worker gross flows between public and private sector?", Economics Letters, forthcoming.

Fontaine, I., Galvez I., Gomes, P. and D. Vila (2020), “Labour market flows: accounting for the public sector”, Labour Economics, forthcoming.

Gomes, P. and Machado, M. (2020), “Literacy and primary school expansion in Portugal: 1940-62", Revista de Historia Económica Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (RHE-JILAEH), 38(1), 111-145.

Gomes, P. (2018), "Heterogeneity and the public sector wage policy", International Economic Review, 59 (3), 1469-1489. 

Gomes, P. and Librero-Cano, A. (2018), "Evaluating three decades of the European Capital of Culture programme: a difference-in-differences approach”, Journal of Cultural Economics, 42(1), 57-73, 2018

Gomes, P. and Kuehn, Z. (2017), “Human capital and the size distribution of firms”, Review of Economic Dynamics, 26, 164-179.

Fernandez-Blanco, J. and Gomes, P. (2017) "Unobserved Heterogeneity, Exit Rates, and Re-employment Wages", The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (2), 375-404.

Gomes, P. and Taamouti, A. (2016), "In search of the determinants of international asset market comovements”, International Review of Economics and Finance, 44, 103-117.

Gomes, P. (2015), "Optimal public sector wages", The Economic Journal, 125 (587), 1425-1451 [Austin Robinson Memorial Prize].

Gomes, P. (2015), "The importance of frequency in estimating labour market transition rates”, IZA Journal of Labour Economics, 4:6.

Afonso, A. and Gomes, P. (2014), "Interactions between private and public sector wages”, Journal of Macroeconomics, 39(PA), 97-112.

Afonso, A., Gomes, P. and Taamouti, A. (2014), "Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains”, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 76(C), 20-33.

Afonso, A., Furceri, D., Gomes, P. (2012), “Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages: application to European data”, Journal of International Money and Finance, 31 (3), 606-638.

Gomes, P (2012), “Labour market flows: Facts from the United Kingdom”, Labour Economics, 19 (2), 165-175.

Afonso, A., Gomes, P. (2011), “Do fiscal imbalances deteriorate sovereign debt ratings?”, Revue Économique, 62 (6), 1123-1134.

Afonso, A., Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2011), “What are the Short and Long-run Determinants of Sovereign Debt Ratings”, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 16 (1), 1-15.

Afonso, A.; Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2009), “Ordered Response Models for Sovereign Debt Ratings”, Applied Economics Letters, 16 (8), 769-773.

Working papers (Revise and Resubmit)

“Economic Consequences of Vertical Mismatch.” With P. Garibaldi and T,. Sopraseuth, R&R 2nd Round, Quantitative Economics.

“You’re the one that I want! Understanding the over-representation of women in the public sector.” With Z. Kuehn, R&R American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

 “Technological change and the decline of public investment.” With D. Debortoli. R&R Quantitative Economics.

 “Immigration and Labour Market Flows.” With A. Chassamboulli, I. Fontaine, I. Galvez, R&R 2nd Round,  Labour Economics.

Chapters in books

Gomes (2022), “The recent movement towards a four-day working week”. In: Goulart P, Ramos R, Ferrittu G (eds) Global Labour in Distress, the post-Cold War era. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland.

Gomes (2016), "Reforming the public sector's wage policy", in Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms, P. Apostolis, (eds.), MIT press, ISBN: 9780262034449.

Afonso, A.; Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2008), "What "Hides" Behind Sovereign Debt Ratings?", in New Developments in Financial Modelling, J. Soares, J. Pina e M. Catalao-Lopes (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 978-1847186744.

Refereed journals (not in English)

Gomes, P. (2023) “Semana de quatro dias no setor público: riscos e oportunidades”, Revista de Administração e Emprego Público, 8, 2023.

Gomes, P. (2022) “La setmana laboral de quatre dies com a innovació social”, Revista econòmica de Catalunya, 85, 86-91, 2022.

Gomes, P., M. Machado (2021) “A escolarização em Portugal no princípio dos anos 40: uma análise quantitativa”, Ler História, 79,  2021.

 Policy Papers

“Public-sector wages: A view from economic theory”, UK Economic Outlook Spring 2023, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Box D., May 2023.

“Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot: Initial report”, with R. Fontinha, Instituto Português de Formação Profissional, April 2023.

2022             Coordinator of Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot, Portuguese Ministry of Employment.

2010             Visiting Fellow, European Commission.

2009 – 2010 Tutorial Fellow, London School of Economics.

2007             Internship at the Bank of England (Structural economic analysis)

2006 – 2007 Research assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance

2006             Internship at the European Central Bank (Fiscal Policies Division)

2004 – 2005 Research assistant at the European Institute

2002 – 2004 Research assistant at the Research Centre on Financial Economics.

2018 – 2023 Economics: Theory, Policy and Institutions (MSc.), Birkbeck.

2017 – 2021 Quantitative Techniques for Applied Economics (BSc.), Birkbeck.

2017 – 2023 Applied Statistics and Econometric (GDE), Birkbeck.

2017 – 2023 Monetary Economics (MSc.), Birkbeck.

2017 – 2023 Topics in Macroeconomics (PhD.), Birkbeck.

2013 – 2017 Macroeconomics I, Universidad Carlos III.

2016              Macroeconomics II  (PhD), Lisbon Technical University.

2014 – 2015 Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.

2013 – 2015 Macroeconomics III (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.

2013              Simulations and estimation of DSGE models, application to Fiscal Policy, Lisbon Technical University (Summer School).

2012 – 2013 International Finance (MSc), University of Essex.

2012 – 2013 Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD), University of Essex.

2012 – 2013 International Money and Finance, University of Essex.

2011 – 2012 Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.

2010 – 2012 Macroeconomics I, Universidad Carlos III.

2009 – 2010 Macroeconomics for MSc. Students, London School of Economics.

2009             Money and Banking, London School of Economics (Summer School).

2008             Public Finance, London School of Economics (Summer School).

2006 – 2007 Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics.

2005 – 2006 International Economics, London School of Economics.

 (90 reviews verified by Publons)

(8) Labour Economics, (3) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, (3) Economics Letters, (5) European Economic Review, (3) Journal of Monetary Economics, (3) Journal of the European Economic Association, (3) The Economic Journal, (2) Economic Inquiry, (2) Economic Modelling, (2) Quantitative Economics, (2) Review of Economic Dynamics, (2) The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (1) Agricultural Economics, (1) American Economic Review, (1) Central European Economic Journal, (1) Econometrica, (1) Economia, (1) Economia-journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, (1) Economic Notes, (1) Economica, (1) Economics & Politics, (1) Empirical Economics, (1) Hacienda Publica Espanola, (1) IZA Journal of Labor Economics, (1) IZA World of Labor, (1) International Finance, (1) International Journal of Economics and Management, (1) International Tax and Public Finance, (1) Journal of Applied Economics, (1) Journal of Banking & Finance, (1) Journal of Cultural Economics, (1) Journal of Development Economics, (1) Journal of Empirical Finance, (1) Journal of International Money and Finance, (1) Macroeconomic Dynamics, (1) Oxford Economic Papers, (1) Portuguese Economic Journal, (1) Public Choice, (1) Quarterly Journal of Economics, (1) Regional Studies, (1) Review of Public Economics, (1) Social Science Research, (1) The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics

Supervisor

2010 – 2014 Dr. Olga Croitorov (Universidad Carlos III), “Sovereign default and asymmetric information.”

2017 – 2022 – Dr. Zeynep Kurter (Birkbeck, University of London), “Essays on the Macroeconomic Determinants of Sovereign and Systemic Risk.”

 Thesis committee

2015 Dr. Abian Garcia (European University Institute), “Essays on fiscal and monetary unions.”

2015 Dr. Maria Lucila Berniell (Universidad Carlos III), “Essays on public policy and human capital.”

2017 Dr. Maria Michael (Cyprus University), “The Public-Private Wage Gap in European Countries.”

2019 Dr. Seefat Khan (University of Kent), “Growth and labour markets in developing countries.”

2020 Dr. Federica De Pace (Queen Mary University), “Essays in Labour Economics.”

2020 Dr. Rui Faustino (Lisbon Technical University), “Essays in Macroeconomics.”

2022 Dr. Concepción González (Alicante University), “Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy.”

2023 Dr. Goher Fatima (University of Kent), “Essays on Labour Market Effects of Fiscal Policy.”

2015                         Austin Robinson Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal by an author who is within five years of receiving a PhD. for the paper ‘Optimal Public Sector Wages’.

2015 – 2017 Juan de la Cierva Scholarship from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad

2005 – 2009 Scholarship for a Doctoral Degree by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

2004 – 2005 Scholarship for a Masters Degree by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

2004                         1st Place in “Undergraduate Paper Competition”, Midwest Economics Association.

2003                         Merit Scholarship of the Lisbon Technical University.

INVITED GENERAL AUDIENCE TALKS:

2023 Financial Service Club, IG Metall, Universidad Carlos III, LSE Sen Club, NIESR, 37th EFPSA Congress, CoLABOR, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Birkbeck Summer Seminar, Working Time Network, ASM Talk, Clube de Política - Laboratório do Trabalho, Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo.

2022 International Labour Organization, Development Bank of Latin America, Conference Future of Work, University of the Balearic Islands, University of Coimbra, City University, Reunion University, Izmir Univercity, Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon Catholic University, Porto Catholic University, University of Porto, ISCTE, Nova School of Business, Turin Festival Economics, Four Day Week Summit, Future Works, European Network Time Reduction, Real Utopia for Social Europe.

2021 Trento Festival of Economics Keynote lecture, World Bank Online Seminar, Brighton & Hove City Council, Amazon, International Monetary Fund, Warwick Political Philosophy Reading Group, Bristol Economic's Observatory, Birkbeck, Government Economic and Social Research, Essex Economics Society, Townley Grammar School.

SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

2023 CEPR Rethinking Economic Policy in Times of Turmoil Conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Kent University.

2022 Porto Catholic University, University of the Balearic Islands, PUC Chile, Konztanz University.

2021 London Macro Workshop, Kent Workshop on Firm Dynamics, SED Annual Conference, T3M Flash Presentation, 3nd International Conference of Government and Economics, UECE Conference, 33rd EALE conference.

2020 Porto University, Durham University, OECD, Heriot-Watt University. Fundazione Rodolfo DiBenedetti (XXII European Conference on “Public Sector Jobs”)

2004-2019 102 Invited Seminar and Workshop presentations and 59 Conference Presentations.

2022 Coordinator of Four-Day Week Pilot, Portuguese Ministry of Work and Social Security, in charge of designing, executing, and evaluating the trial of the four-day week in the private sector, working with the minister’s cabinet, senior civil servants, and private sector companies. 

2015 External expert on the “Study on credit rating agencies market and the feasibility of alternatives to credit ratings” undertaken by ICF Consulting for the European Commission.

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Television and Radio: Blomberg (Middle East), CNN Portugal, RTP (Portugal), Saúde+TV (Portugal), Talk Radio Europe, ABC (Australia), Antena 3 (Portugal), Observador (Portugal) Radio Chile.

Podcasts: The Europeans, RNE (Spain), El Confidencial (Spain), 45 Graus (Portugal), AFP (France).