Expert in microeconometric methods, with applied work spanning energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial leverage, and banking-crisis analysis.
Has developed and applied a variety of new microeconometric models and tools, with particular focus on fractional and binary response models, financial leverage decisions, and energy economics.
Professor of Economics and Director of the Department of Economics at Iscte — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU). Former Director of Iscte's PhD in Economics programme and of CEFAGE-UE at Universidade de Évora.
Recent research applies microeconometric methods to energy and directed technological change, self-employment and well-being, and family ownership of firms.
Twin tracks: leadership of one of Lisbon's principal economics departments and a sustained microeconometric research programme.
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