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Possui graduação em Economia pela Universidade da Costa Rica, mestrado em Economia pela Boston University (1997) e doutorado pela University of California - Berkeley (2006). É professor titular do departamento de economia da PUC-Rio, e pesquisador associado ao BREAD, E-GAP e J-PAL. Tem experiência na área de Economia, com ênfase em Desenvolvimento Econômico, Economia Política, Economia do Setor Público, e Avaliação de Políticas Públicas. Sua pesquisa inclui estudos sobre as causas e consequências da corrupção e da qualidade de governos, incentivos políticos e seus efeitos sobre a economia e a avaliação de impacto de políticas
Cristiano Carvalho is an economist in public and labor economics. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan. His research explores how government interventions shape and are shaped by labor-market dynamics, with a focus on the institutional challenges developing countries face in designing effective tax and social-insurance policies. His work covers small-business taxation, labor inspections, and the effects of publicly disclosing tax information on wages.
Fernando Mendo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of PUC Rio. His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, with an emphasis on financial stability and monetary economics. His research agenda tries to understand the theoretical and quantitative linkages between financial markets, payments systems, monetary policy, and the macroeconomy.
He was a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile and a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2019 and holds a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico, Peru. He was born in Lima, Peru and his hobbies include basketball, volleyball and soccer.
Gustavo Gonzaga
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, EUA, 1993 Labor Economics
Gustavo Gonzaga has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and master and bachelor degrees in Economics from PUC-Rio. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio, where he has been since 1993. Since 2021, he is the vice-chair of the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio. He also served as head of the Department (1997-1999), postgraduate chair (2003 -2008 and 2012-2020) and undergraduate chair (1993-1995). His main line of research is in Labor Economics, focused on analyzing the impacts of labor market institutions in Brazil on employment, turnover and inequality. In particular, he studies how Brazilian labor legislation generates perverse incentives that helps to explain the high rate of job turnover, contributing to the low labor productivity in the country. His recent research addresses the unemployment insurance system and firing costs, among other subjects. His current research agenda with Brazilian data also includes: i) gender wage differentials; ii) the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program; iii) the mobile broadband expansion; and iv) the effects of the minimum wage. His works are on the frontier of Labor Economics with Economic Development, Public Finance and International Economics, and have been published in prestigious international journals, such as the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Quantitative Economics, Labor Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Economic Association and in the main economic journals in Brazil. He is responsible for creating, updating and expanding the lab Datazoom, a popular tool for accessing microdata from IBGE household surveys (Censuses, PNAD, PNAD-Continuous, PME and POF) launched in 2014, and Datazoom Amazônia, launched in 2021
Juan Rios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at PUC Rio. His research interests lie at the intersection of public sector economics and development. He has a particular interest in redistributive policies in developing countries, the determinants of income inequality, and the political constraints that may hinder improvements in these areas. Juan holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, a master's degree from PUC Rio, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. In addition to his academic pursuits, he has worked as an economist at Cornerstone Research and Uber.
Juliano Assunção
Doutor, PUC-Rio, Brasil, 2002 Development economics, Applied microeconomics e Econometrics
Juliano Assunção holds a Ph.D. in Economics from PUC-Rio, a Master’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, also from UFMG. With a solid academic career, he has numerous articles published in scientific journals, has served on doctoral and master’s examination committees, advised graduate students, and delivered lectures at national and international conferences. He is a Professor at the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio and the Executive Director of CPI/PUC-Rio.
Since 2011, he has worked at CPI/PUC-Rio, contributing to the design of more effective climate policies in Brazil through evidence-based analysis and direct engagement with policymakers and civil society.
Juliano is also the coordinator of the Amazon 2030 project, which aims to leverage a sustainable development plan for the Brazilian Amazon by 2030.
In 2024, with Brazil holding the presidency of the G20, Juliano took on the role of Technical Coordinator of the expert group of the G20 Climate Mobilization Task Force (TF-CLIMA).
Leonardo Rezende
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003 Industrial organzation, Microeconomic Theory
Lucas Lima has been an assistant professor in the Economics Department at PUC Rio since 2023. His research interests focus on Structural Econometrics, with a particular emphasis on flexible demand estimation and the impacts of public policies on intra-household decisions. Lucas holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, as well as a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Marcelo Medeiros
Doutor, PUC-Rio, Brasil, 2000 Econometrics, Time Series, Neural Networks
Márcio Garcia is full professor at the Department of Economics of PUC-Rio, ince 1991, having already served as Chairman and Director of both Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. His areas of research are International Finance and Monetary Economics. He has been visiting professor/scholar at the economics departments of Stanford, Chicago, MIT and MIT/Sloan, in the US, and at Paris School of Economics (then, DELTA) and Université D’Evry-Val-D’Essone, in France. He is a research associate of CNPq and FAPERJ and a member of the Bellagio Group. He has consulted for international and Brazilian institutions, as The World Bank, IMF, IADB, ECLAC/UN, B3, BNDES, Icatu, ANBIMA, NEO Investimentos and Fininvest, among others. And since 2019, has been a member of the board of directors of Banrisul.
Nathalie Gimenes
Ph.D., Queen Mary University of London, Reino Unido, 2014
Empirical Industrial Organization and Econometrics
Nathalie Gimenes has a MSc and a PhD in Economics from Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a BA degree from University of São Paulo, UK. She has been Associate Professor at the Department of Economics from PUC-Rio since 2017, currently been the Head of the Undergraduate Program in Economics. Her main research area is in Econometrics of Auctions with focus on the development of econometrics methodologies to analyse the efficiency of auctions models. Her research papers use techniques in Ecocometrics, especially Quantile Regression. Currently, she is studying procurement auctions conduced by the Federal Government via the Comprasnet platform. Her papers have been published in prestigious international journals, such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Renata Narita
Ph.D. in Economics, University College London, UK, 2011.
Renata Narita joint the department of economics at PUC-Rio in August 2023. She is a labor economist with an interest in labor markets in developing countries. In particular, she estimates job search models to evaluate the impact of labor market policies on employment, informality, wages, and welfare. She is an Invited Researcher at J-PAL (GEA and JOI Brazil). Prior to joining PUC-Rio, she was a full professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) Department of Economics, she also worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington DC and at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance. She holds a Ph.D in economics from University College London, M.A. in economics from PUC-Rio, and B.A. in economics from University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto.
Thierry Verdier graduated in Civil Engineering from Ecole Polytecnique (Paris) and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris), and received his PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (Paris). He is Professor of Economics at PSE (Paris School of Economics, Paris) and PUC-Rio (Brazil). He is Fellow of the European Economic Association, and a former member of the European Economic Association Council. He is a Research Fellow and former Co-Director of the International Trade Programme of CEPR (London). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea. His fields of interest are international trade and globalization; social interactions and cultural transmission; political economy and development; economics of crime; and corruption.
Timo Hiller
PH.D., Economics, European University Institute, 2011
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