Pedro Portugal (Banco de Portugal)
Short Bio
Pedro Portugal (1958), a citizen of Portugal, studied economics at the Universidade do Porto and received his PhD at University of South Carolina, in 1991. He is currently a senior researcher at the Bank of Portugal and invited professor of economics at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main area of interest is applied labor economics, focusing on issues of microeconomics of unemployment, unemployment compensation, wage bargaining, job security, and worker displacement. Pedro Portugal has published in the major economics and labor economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Policy, Economica, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He has also published in other fields, namely in Industrial Economics and Strategic Management, including the Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics and Strategic Management Journal.
Juan Francisco Jimeno (Banco de España)
Division Head
Modelling and Macroeconomic Analysis Division
ADG Economics and Research
DG Economics, Statistics and Research
Short Bio
Head of the Research Division of the Bank of Spain since October 2004. Professor of Economics, (Profesor Titular de Economía) at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid (1992-2004), Research Officer at the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) in Madrid (1992-2004). Before he became a Full Professor, he was a Lecturer in Economics at London School of Economics (1990- 1991) and an Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (1991- 1992). Juan F. Jimeno received his Licenciado in Economics at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in 1984 and his Ph. D. in Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. His main research interests in Labor Economics are: Wage and Employment Determination; Particular Labor Markets; Labor-Management Relations; Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining; Mobility, Unemployment and Vacancies; Employment Policies. In Macroeconomics: Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment and Investment; Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance; Macroeconomic Policy and General Outlook.He won the National Award (Diaz de Santos ’97) for young reseachers in Economics.
Juan F. Jimeno joined IZA as Research Fellow in October 1999.