Teaching experience at Nova

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Last updated 27 January, 2007

30+ years & courses

My teaching experience at Nova began in the Fall of 1976, before the creation of the Faculty of Economics (together with four other teachers, I received a medal for 20 years of service in the Spring of 1998...). During this period, I offered over 30 graduate and undergraduate courses in international economics, development economics and macroeconomics. I had no teaching obligations between 1977 and 1984, between 1989 and 1993 and since 1999 due to various leaves of absence. I nevertheless tought during visiting appointments. 

Development Economics

My first course was on Development Economics. Due to my departure to Yale, in January 1997, the exam was monitored by the teaching assistant, Antonio Rebelo de Sousa. During a year of leave from Princeton, I offered Undergraduate Course # 161 (Development Policies) in Fall 1981 - with the same teaching assistant as in the Fall of 1976. Upon returning to Nova as visiting associate professor, I gave the Graduate Course on Economic Development I and II in Fall 1984 and Spring 1985.

My interest in processes of economic and social development began during my military service in the Portuguese Army. From August 1974 to September 1975  I offered three courses at the Faculty of Economics, University of Luanda, Angola (Development Policies, Introduction to Social Science, Theory of Dependence). I continue involved in lusophone issues especially at the Tropical Research Institute.
Related to the development process is the transition from central planning to the market, a topic which I have been following since I worked on the economies of central Europe and the former Soviet Union at the European Commission from 1989 to 1991.
Both development and transition economies raise issues of ethics which are also covered in my courses on international economics and macroeconomics.

International Economics and Economic Integration

The course on International Monetary Economics which I taught previously (in Portuguese) in the Fall 1981, 1985 and 1987 was again offered in the Spring of 1997. At the students' request, though, the course was offered in English and in the form of a research seminar on International Monetary Economics. This feature remained in the course on international finance or the finance section of the graduate course on international economics offered the following years.

I taught Undergraduate Course # 142 (Economic Integration) in Fall 1984, Fall 1985, Fall 1986, Fall 1987, Fall 1994 and Fall 1995; Undergraduate Course # 141 (International Economics II) in  Spring 1986; Spring 1987 and  Spring 1988.

I have also taught Undergraduate Course # 144 (The European Economy, in English) in Spring 1996 and Fall 1996. An ex-post class presentation and required reading list was available for that edition, including the topics chosen for student and guest presentations and may help preparing for the final exams in January 1997.

My teaching of international economics uses these Euro and Global homepages

Macroeconomics

Upon returning to the Faculty of Economics in January 1994, I was offered Undergraduate Course # 101 (Introduction to Macroeconomics). I have tought it every Spring since 1995. The course  features guided visits to Portuguese economic institutions such as the Parliament, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance. In Spring 1997, it also featured a presentation by Larry Kotlikoff of generational accounting in Portugal, a paper which I co-authored, together with some comparisons for other OECD countries. This was one of the topics of the exam in Spring 1998!

Click here for the full outline of the Introductory Macro course

In the Spring of 1998, I was asked to offer the first course in the graduate sequence in macroeconomic theory. This allowed me to extend the analytical approach based on current models of open-economy macroeconomics I use in my graduate course on international finance.

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