cef.up sponsors the PhD program in Economics at the Faculdade de Economia (UP), since it was first created in 1998.
cef.up’s researchers are responsible for most courses. The center is itself responsible for two courses: Advanced Economic Analysis and History of Economic Thought.
Advanced Economic Analysis is a second-year course of the PhD program in Economics. Course contents include state-of-the-art tools for both micro and macroeconomics, as well as for policy modeling. The course is organized as colection of topics that vary from one academic year to the next. Each topic is lectured by visiting professors of internationaly recognized merit
The business cycle effects of monetary, fiscal, and uncertainty shocks
Efrem Castelnuovo, University of Padova, Italy
Economics of Incentives
Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Quantitative Macroeconomics-Topics in Sovereign Debt
Hernan Bernadaz, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Quantitative Macro Topics
Hernan Bernadaz, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Foundations of Info-metrics
Amos Golan, American University Programme
2016-2017
Macroeconomic analysis with empirical time series models
Luca Gambetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Programme
Topics in Econometrics
Richard Smith, CEMMAP, UCL and IFS, University of Cambridge and University of Melbourne Programme
Topics in International Trade
Gino Gancia, CREI, Barcelona GSE and CEPR Programme
Entrepreneurship in the Modern Economy
Roy Thurik, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam Programme
2015-2016
The identification Zoo: Meanings of identification in Econometrics
Arthur Lewbel, Boston College Programme
Economic Growth, Resources, and the Environment
Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University Programme
Quality, information, market functioning and regulation
Paolo Garella, Università degli Studi di Milano Programme
Tools and Topics in International Trade
Luca David Opromolla, Bank of Portugal Programme
2014-2015
Introduction to Experimental Economics: lab and field experiments
Juan A. Lacomba, Universidad de Granada and Francisco Lagos, University of Granada Programme
Financial Economics
Charles Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Programme
Economic Growth
Oded Galor, Brown University Programme
Dynamic Macroeconomics
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California Programme
2013-2014
Coalitions and Networks – with applications to public economics and industrial economics
Francis Bloch, École Polytechnique, France Programme
Princípios de Política Fiscal e Monetária
Pedro Teles, Banco de Portugal e Universidade Católica Portuguesa Programme
The Economics of the Internet
Paul Belleflamme, CORE – Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Programme
Natural Resources and Climate
Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford