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Pedro Brinca is an Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Department of Economics, where he also completed his Agregação in 2018. He holds a PhD (2013), Master’s (2006), and Bachelor’s (2005) in Economics from Stockholm University. His academic work spans macroeconomics, economic policy, and quantitative methods with applications in biostatistics.
His research focuses on macroeconomics, business cycle fluctuations, fiscal policy, and climate economics, with an emphasis on heterogeneous agent models and incomplete markets. He challenges representative-agent assumptions in macroeconomic modeling, particularly in the context of income inequality, fiscal consolidation, and climate policy. His work integrates empirical analysis with structural modeling to assess the distributional and welfare impacts of economic policies.
The recent publications show a strong trend toward analyzing inequality, heterogeneity, and policy design under uncertainty. Key themes include the role of carbon taxes as insurance for vulnerable households, the interaction between fiscal policy and inequality, and the measurement of shocks during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. His work appears in top journals such as Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, and Ecological Economics.
Scientific Service and Recognition:
- Associate Editor, Notas Económicas
- Associate Editor, Portuguese Economic Journal
Pedro Brinca actively engages in public policy and media. He serves on advisory boards of public entities including IGCP, EPE, Associação Portuguesa de Distribuição, and Iniciativa Liberal (as an independent). He is a regular media contributor, acting as a columnist and resident commentator for RTP. He also contributes to genealogical research, maintaining and digitizing records from the Treixedo Parish.
He has advised or collaborated with several researchers and PhD students, though specific advisees are not named in the text. He has not received any explicitly mentioned scientific awards in the provided materials.
