Jo茫o TOVAR JALLES

Senior Associate Professor of Economics | Affiliate Senior Research at 九色视频 Business School

九色视频

 

Email: joao.tovarjalles@ipag.fr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo%C3%A3o-tovar-jalles-ph-d-89b6574/

Education

 

  • Year: 2011 PhD University of Cambridge 
  • Year: 2008 MSc Warwick University
  • Year: 2006 BSc Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Biography
  • Selected publications
  • Professional experiences

 

Jo茫o Tovar Jalles, a Portuguese national, is a Senior Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he was a Senior Economist at the Portuguese Public Finance Council. Before that he spent 5 years at the IMF: 1 year in the Research Department and 4 years in the Fiscal Affairs Department, where he participated in negotiation and review missions to Senegal and Georgia. Before joining the Fund, Jo茫o was the Economist of the Brazil-Portugal Desk at the OECD鈥檚 Economics Department and before that a Fiscal Economist at the ECB鈥檚 Fiscal Policies Division (where he was part of the Troika team for Portugal). Jo茫o was also a Visiting Scholar at the IMF鈥檚 Research Department and a Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Portugal鈥檚 Research Department. Academically, he was an Invited Lecturer at Sciences Po (France), Assistant Professor at the University of Aberdeen (UK) and he also taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).  

Jo茫o麓s main research interest is applied macroeconomics, more specifically fiscal policy/public finance, structural reforms, macro-financial linkages, assessment of forecasts and energy economics. Jo茫o is among the top 1% economic authors in the World (Rank: [227 out of 68784]) based on IDEAS database麓s last 10-year publications (the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics).

He has written extensively having published more than 150 academic papers in refereed journals such as: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Oxford Economic Papers, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economics Letters, Regional Studies, Energy Economics. Jo茫o holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick (UK), a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a Habilitation Degree ("Agrega莽茫o") from Universidade de Lisboa.

 

  • 2024    鈥淔iscal Decentralization and Attitudes towards the Environment: a survey-based analysis鈥 (joint with L. de Mello 鈥 OECD) forthcoming Energy Economics2024    鈥淣atural disasters and intergovernmental relations: More or less decentralisation?鈥 (joint with L. de Mello 鈥 OECD) forthcoming Regional Studies 
  • 2024    鈥淎 tale of government efficiency and trust in the State鈥 (joint with A. Afonso and A. Venancio 鈥 University of Lisbon) forthcoming Public Choice 
  • 2022    鈥淭his Changes Everything: Climate Shocks and Sovereign Bonds鈥 (joint with S. Cevik 鈥 IMF), Energy Economics Vol. 107, 105856 
  • 2022    鈥淭win Deficits Revisited: A role for Fiscal Institutions?鈥 (joint with P. Stanek 鈥 University of Cracow -, F. Huart 鈥 University of Lille - and A. Afonso 鈥 University of Lisbon), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 121, 102506
  • 2022    鈥淗eterogeneous Gains from Counter-cyclical Fiscal Policy: New Evidence from International Industry-level data鈥 (joint with D. Furceri - IMF卢 - and S. Choi 鈥 Yonsei University), Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 74(3), pp. 773-804
  • 2022    鈥淟abor and Product Market Reforms and External Imbalances: Evidence from Advanced Economies鈥 (joint with D. Furceri and R. Duval 鈥 IMF), Journal of International Money and Finance Vol. 121, 102513
  • 2022    鈥淧rivate and Public Consumption: Substitutes or Complements?鈥 (joint with G. Karras - University of Illinois at Chicago), Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 74(3), pp. 805-819
  • 2020    鈥淭he Global Crisis and Intergovernmental Relations: Centralisation vs. decentralisation Ten Years On鈥 (joint with L. de Mello 鈥 OECD), Regional Studies Vol. 54(7), pp. 942-957   
  • 2020    鈥淛ob Protection Deregulation in Good and Bad Times鈥 (joint with R. Duval and D. Furceri 鈥 IMF), Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 72(2), pp. 370-390 
  • 2019    鈥淒o IMF Forecasts respect the Okun麓s Law? Evidence for Advanced and Developing Economies鈥 (joint with L. Ball 鈥 Johns Hopkins University -, Z. An - American University - and P. Loungani 鈥 IMF), International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 35(3), pp. 1131-1142 
  • 2016    鈥淟ike Father like Sons? The Cost of Sovereign Defaults in Reduced Credit to the Private Sector鈥 (joint with R. Esteves 鈥 University of Oxford), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 48(7), pp. 1515鈥1545  
  • 2015    鈥淒o Forecasters believe in the Okun鈥檚 Law? An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts鈥 (joint with P. Loungani 鈥 IMF 鈥 and L. Ball 鈥 Johns Hopkins University), International Journal of Forecasting Vol. 31 (1), pp. 176-184 
  • 2014    鈥淩espiratory Tuberculosis and Standards of Living in Post-war Europe鈥 (joint with S. Bowden and A. Sadler 鈥 University of York 鈥 and A. Santos Pereira 鈥 Simon Fraser University), European Review of Economic History, Vol. 18(1), pp. 57-81

 

PORTUGUESE PUBLIC FINANCE COUNCIL (2019-2020):
Senior Economist: Policy and research-oriented analysis

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
Research Department, Development Macroeconomics Division (2018-2019)
Research Economist: Research-oriented analysis
Fiscal Affairs Department, Fiscal Policy and Surveillance Division (2014-2018)
Economist: Policy and research-oriented analysis

ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) (2012-2014)
Department of Economics, Country Studies Division
Economist: Policy and research-oriented analysis

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK (ECB) (2011-2012)
DIRECTORATE GENERAL ECONOMICS, FISCAL POLICIES DIVISION
Economist: Policy and research-oriented analysis

UNIVERSITY OF LISBON - LISBON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT
Senior Associate Professor of Economics (2023 鈥 now)
Associate Professor of Economics (2022 鈥 2023)
Assistant Professor of Economics (2020 鈥 2022)


INSTITUT D鈥櫭塗UDES POLITIQUES (SCIENCES PO)  -  PARIS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (2012-2014)
Invited Lecturer of Economics 

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN - BUSINESS SCHOOL (2011-2012)
Assistant Professor of Economics

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - FACULTY OF ECONOMICS (2009-2010)
Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow

UNIVERSIDADE NOVA LISBOA - NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS (2006-2007)
Teaching Assistant 

Research Areas

 

  • fiscal policy/public finance
  • structural reforms
  • macro-financial linkages
  • assessment of forecasts 
  • energy economics

Teaching Areas

 

  • Macroeconomics
  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Energy Economics