Lisbon Macro Working Group

The Lisbon Macro Working Group brings together macroeconomists in Lisbon to present and discuss research at any stage where feedback is useful. We meet five times per year and presentations can range from preliminary ideas to papers being revised for journals. Presentations are one hour each.

Current participants
Tiago Bernardino (ISEG)
Lukas Boehnert (Bank of Portugal)
João Brogueira de Sousa (Nova)
Jesús Bueren (Católica)
Marta Cota (Nova)
Miguel H Ferreira (Queen Mary)
Nic Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal)
Juan Llavador Peralt (Bank of Portugal)
Francisco Queiró (Nova)
Francisco Queirós (Porto)
Ante Sterc (Bank of Portugal)
Tiago Tavares (ISEG)
Laszlo Tetenyi (Bank of Portugal)
Edoardo Tolva (ISEG)

November 5th, 2026
Juan Llavador Peralt, Menu Costs and Inflation Inertia
Lukas Boehnert, Financial Repression as (Optimal) Industrial Policy

September 7th, 2026
Miguel H Ferreira, Marginal Propensity to Invest: Distribution, Determinants, and Policy Implications
Francisco Queirós, Bubbles, Wealth Accumulation, and Inequality

July 7th, 2026
Marta Cota, Information, Networks, and Distributional Pass-Through of Monetary Policy
Attila Gyetvia, The Perils of Progress: Why Improving Labor Markets Can Backfire

May 8th, 2026
Laszlo Tetenyi, How Exporters Advertise their Products and Grow
Ante Sterc, Financial Skills and Search in the Mortgage Market

March 5th, 2026
Tiago Tavares, Financially Constrained Households and Consumption Volatility in Open Economies
Edoardo Tolva, Transport Mode and the Geography of Exchange Rate Pass-Through

December 5th, 2025
Jesús Bueren, Spatial Health: How Smoking Shapes our Neighborhoods
Miguel H Ferreira, From Spreads to Spirals: How Financial Frictions Drive Lumpy Investments

September 19th, 2025
Francisco Queiró, Reassessing Local Human Capital Externalities
João Brogueira de Sousa, Taxes and Migration Flows: Preferential Tax Schemes for High-Skill Immigrants

July 8th, 2025
Ante Sterc, Information, Networks, and Distributional Pass-Through of Monetary Policy
Nic Kozeniauskas, Beyond Risk: Firm Financing and Interest Rates

May 8th, 2025
Marcos Sora, Financial Development and Specialization in Services
Francisco Queirós, Production Networks, Time to Build and Endogenous Oscillations

March 19th, 2025
Marta Cota, Gender Differences in Savings over the Lifecycle: The Role of Financial Literacy
Laszlo Tetenyi, The Macroeconomic Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidies