Latest issue of the Portuguese Economic Journal
Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2025.
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Effects of the informal sector on wages, sectoral competitiveness and economic growth" by Óscar Afonso & Ana Maria Bandeira .
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Global economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk and stock returns in Nigeria" by Ndubuisi O. Chukwu & Ambrose Nnaemeka Omeje.
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Inflation and income/wealth inequality in the European union" by Mihaela Simionescu.
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Volatility forecasting for the European union carbon emissions allowance trading market based on the VMD method" by Yuping Song, Xiaolong Tang & Yankun Sun.
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Covid-19 lockdowns under imperfect redistribution: cross-country stylized facts and theory" by Joshua Lawrence & Jacek Rothert.
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Predicting your children’s returns to schooling" by Carlos Madeira.
Call for papers for the collection Selected Papers on the Portuguese Economy
The Portuguese Economic Journal welcomes submissions to its collection
Selected Papers on the Portuguese Economy edited by Rui Albuquerque (Carroll School of Management, Boston College). The deadline is
31 January 2026, the submission guidelines are available
here, and manuscripts can be submitted
here.
Upcoming Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal
The
19th Annual Meeting of PEJ will be hosted by the University of Aveiro from 3 to 5 July 2026. The keynote speakers are
Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago),
Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota), and
Michèle Tertilt (University of Manheim).
Consultaccount Award 2023
The Consultaccount Award for the best paper presented by a PhD student at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal was conferred to
Anton Heil (LSE, UK) for
Economic Growth and Occupational Variety. The award consisted of a certificate and a pecuniary prize in the amount of EUR 750.
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Anton Heil, winner of the Consultaccount Award 2025.
Portuguese Economy Research Report
The latest discussion paper on the
blog is "Fiscal policy effectiveness in a background of political fragmentation" by Ricardo Duque Gabriel, Mathias Klein and Marvin N¨o;ller.
Portuguese Economy Data Report
The latest discussion on the
blog is "Fast and Exceptional Enterprise Survey - COVID-19".
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