Research

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Advisors: Prof. Frank Cowell and Sir. Chris Pissarides

Gomes, P. (2015), "Optimal public sector wages", The Economic Journal, 125 (587), 1425-1451 [Austin Robinson Memorial Prize].
Gomes, P. (2018), "Heterogeneity and the public sector wage policy", International Economic Review, 59 (3), 1469-1489.
Chassamboulli, A., and Gomes, P. (2021) "Jumping the queue: nepotism and public-sector pay" Review of Economic Dynamics, 39, 344-366.
Gomes, P. and Kuehn, Z. (2017), “Human capital and the size distribution of firms”, Review of Economic Dynamics, 26, 164-179.
Garibaldi, A., Gomes, P. and Sopraseuth, T. (2021) "Public Employment Redux" Journal of Government and Economics, 1, forthcoming.
Allub, L., Gomes, P. and Kuehn, Z. (2024), “Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-level interactions and macroeconomic implications”, Economic Journal.

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, 212 citations.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2011), "Short- and long-run determinants of sovereign debt credit ratings", International Journal of Finance and Economics, 16(1), pp. 1-15, 181 citations.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2009), "Ordered response models for sovereign debt ratings", Applied Economics Letters, 16(8), pp. 769-773, 61 citations.
Gomes, P. (2012), "Labour market flows: Facts from the United Kingdom", Labour Economics, 19(2), pp. 165-175, 52 citations.
Gomes, P. (2015), "Optimal public sector wages", The Economic Journal, 125 (587), 1425-1451 [Austin Robinson Memorial Prize]. 50 citations.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P., Taamouti, A. (2014), "Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 76, pp. 20-33, 35 citations.