Margarida Abreu

Margarida Abreu is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management (ISEG), University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Monetary Economics from the University of Paris X and an Aggregation in Economics from ISEG. Her research spans Monetary Economics, Behavioral Economics, Finance, Foreign Exchange Markets, Financial Crises, Cryptocurrency, and Investor Behavior, with a focus on biases in financial decision-making and market dynamics. She has authored the fourth-edition Monetary and Financial Economics textbook and contributed to curricular revisions for the Bachelor Degree in Economics, set to launch in 2025/2026.

• Professional Roles
  • Member of the School Council, ISEG
  • Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree in Economics, ISEG
  • Member of the Board of Auditors, Banco de Portugal (2018–2023)
• Research Themes
  • Behavioral biases in financial markets (e.g., disposition effect, overconfidence)
  • Cryptocurrency and asset evaluation
  • Financial literacy and youth saving behavior
  • Monetary instability and banking margins
  • Gender dynamics in Portuguese finance
• Supervised Theses
  • Rahul Surendra Jivan (2025): ECB decarbonization policy and green financing
  • João Miguel Guerreiro Apolónia (2021): Bitcoin as an investment asset
  • Rita Joana da Nave Pedro (2015): Google data and market sentiment
  • Andreia Sofia Simões Monteiro Lopes (2017): Art as an asset class
  • Sílvia Patrícia Simões Esteves (2013): ECB's role in Eurozone crisis