Latest issue of the Portuguese Economic Journal
Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2025.



Available Online First
"Volatility forecasting for the European union carbon emissions allowance trading market based on the VMD method" by Yuping Song, Xiaolong Tang & Yankun Sun.
"Covid-19 lockdowns under imperfect redistribution: cross-country stylized facts and theory" by Joshua Lawrence & Jacek Rothert.
"Predicting your children’s returns to schooling" by Carlos Madeira.




Call for papers for the Special Issue on High-Frequency Data in Economics
Edited by Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School) and António Rua (INE - Statistics Portugal & Nova SBE). The call for papers is available 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 will be announced soon.



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.



YouTube channel
Watch the PEJ Talk Junior Edion video Luca Lorenzini, winner of the Consultaccount Award 2024.



Portuguese Economy Research Report
The latest discussion paper on the blog is "Mobile applications, physical activity, and health promotion" by Pedro Sousa Basto and Priscila Ferreira.



Portuguese Economy Data Report
The latest discussion on the blog is "Fast and Exceptional Enterprise Survey - COVID-19".



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