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Rui Albuquerque

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This page is curated by Professor Rui Albuquerque, who is affiliated with Boston College, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His main research interests are in asset pricing, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.

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Domingos Seward

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This forum is dedicated to research on the Portuguese Economy. All scientific research on the Portuguese economy is welcome, namely research produced in the context of Master’s dissertations, PhD theses, or that circulates as working papers, as well as published work (articles, chapters, and books).

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Monetary policy and household consumption spending in Portugal

July 9, 2022

This paper studies the effect of monetary policy across households of different Euro Area countries to understand the effects of the likely scenario of future interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank. Specifically, the paper studies mechanisms through which monetary policy may differentially affect households across the Euro Area. The rise in interest rates should be especially relevant to those countries with high debt levels, like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain.

Redistributive effects of monetary policy on labor income

October 26, 2021

In recent years, inequality has attracted a great deal of attention in monetary policy circles. A growing strand of the macroeconomic literature suggests that monetary policy is not immune to redistributive consequences, despite inequality not being an explicit target of its actions. The bulk of this debate centers around the relationship between monetary policy and asset prices, yet labor income represents a major source of inequality, and its relationship with monetary policy remains unexplored.