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Positions held:
Professor of Economics,
Birkbeck Business School
Address
Room 759, Malet Street
Email
Overview
Overview
Qualifications
PhD , London School of Economics, 2010
M.Res. Economics , London School of Economics, 2006
MSc. Economics , London School of Economics, 2005
BSc. Economics , Lisbon Technical University, 2003
Web profiles
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Supervisions within Birkbeck:
3
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
JOAO SOARES COELHO PINTO DE SOUSA
Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor,
Oct 2020
Title of thesis:
The effect of UK fiscal policy on output: a historical narrative approach
Awarded:
2024
ZEYNEP KURTER
Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor,
Oct 2017
Title of thesis:
Essays on the Macroeconomic Determinants of Sovereign and Systemic Risk
Awarded:
2022
Teaching
Teaching modules
Economics: Theory, Policy and Institutions (BUEM087S7) Macroeconomics (EMEC025S7) Monetary Economics (EMEC055H7)
Publications
Publications
Article
Garibaldi, P. and Gomes, Pedro and Sopraseuth, T.
(2025)
Output costs of education and skill mismatch in OECD countries .
Economics Letters
pp. 112278.
ISSN 0165-1765.
Garibaldi, P. and Gomes, Pedro and Sopraseut, T.
(2024)
Economic consequences of vertical mismatch .
Quantitative Economics
ISSN 1759-7323.
(In Press)
Gomes, Pedro and Seoane, H.D.
(2024)
Made in Europe: monetary–fiscal policy mix with financial frictions .
European Economic Review
165,
ISSN 0014-2921.
Allub, L. and Gomes, Pedro and Kuehn, Z.
(2023)
Human capital and financial development: firm-level interactions and macroeconomic implications .
The Economic Journal
ISSN 0013-0133.
Chassamboulli, A. and Fontaine, I. and Galvez-Iniesta, I. and Gomes, Pedro
(2023)
Immigration and labour market flows .
Labour Economics
ISSN 0927-5371.
Chassamboulli, A. and Gomes, Pedro
(2023)
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions .
Labour Economics
ISSN 0927-5371.
Camilli, A. and Gomes, Pedro
(2022)
Public employment and homeownership dynamics .
Public Choice
ISSN 0048-5829.
Gomes, Pedro and Machado, M.
(2021)
A escolarização em Portugal no princípio dos anos 40: uma análise quantitativa .
Ler História
(79),
pp. 135-164.
ISSN 0870-6182.
Chassamboulli, A. and Gomes, Pedro
(2021)
Jumping the queue: nepotism and public-sector pay .
Review of Economic Dynamics
39,
pp. 344-366.
ISSN 1094-2025.
Garibaldi, P. and Gomes, Pedro and Sopraseuth, T.
(2021)
Public employment redux .
Journal of Government and Economics
1,
pp. 100003.
ISSN 2667-3193.
Chassamboulli, A. and Fontaine, I. and Gomes, Pedro
(2020)
How important are worker gross flows between public and private sector? .
Economics Letters
192
(109204),
ISSN 0165-1765.
Gomes, Pedro and Machado, M.P.
(2020)
Literacy and primary school expansion in Portugal: 1940–62 .
Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
38
(1),
pp. 111-145.
ISSN 0212-6109.
Fontaine, I. and Galvez-Iniesta, I. and Gomes, Pedro and Vila-Martin, D.
(2019)
Labour market flows: accounting for the public sector .
Labour Economics
62,
pp. 101770.
ISSN 0927-5371.
Gomes, Pedro
(2018)
Heterogeneity and the public sector wage policy .
International Economic Review
59
(3),
pp. 1469-1489.
ISSN 1468-2354.
Gomes, Pedro and Librero-Cano, A.
(2018)
Evaluating three decades of the European Capital of Culture programme: a difference-in-differences approach .
Journal of Cultural Economics
42
(1),
pp. 57-73.
ISSN 0885-2545.
Gomes, Pedro and Kuehn, Z.
(2017)
Human capital and the size distribution of firms .
Review of Economic Dynamics
26,
pp. 164-179.
ISSN 1094-2025.
Gomes, Pedro and Taamouti, A.
(2016)
In search of the determinants of European asset market comovements .
International Review of Economics & Finance
44,
pp. 103-117.
ISSN 1059-0560.
Fernández-Blanco, J. and Gomes, Pedro
(2016)
Unobserved heterogeneity, exit rates, and re-employment wages .
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
119
(2),
pp. 375-404.
ISSN 0347-0520.
Gomes, Pedro
(2015)
The importance of frequency in estimating labour market transition rates .
IZA Journal of Labor Economics
4
(1),
ISSN 2193-8997.
Gomes, Pedro
(2014)
Optimal public sector wages .
The Economic Journal
125
(587),
pp. 1425-1451.
ISSN 0013-0133.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, Pedro and Taamouti, A.
(2014)
Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains .
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
76,
pp. 20-33.
ISSN 0167-9473.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, Pedro
(2014)
Interactions between private and public sector wages .
Journal of Macroeconomics
39,
pp. 97-112.
ISSN 0164-0704.
Afonso, A. and Furceri, D. and Gomes, Pedro
(2012)
Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages: application to European data .
Journal of International Money and Finance
31
(3),
pp. 606-638.
ISSN 0261-5606.
Gomes, Pedro
(2012)
Labour market flows: facts from the United Kingdom .
Labour Economics
19
(2),
pp. 165-175.
ISSN 0927-5371.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, Pedro
(2011)
Do fiscal imbalances deteriorate sovereign debt ratings ? .
Revue économique
62
(6),
pp. 1123-1134.
ISSN 0035-2764.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, Pedro and Rother, P.
(2010)
Short- and long-run determinants of sovereign debt credit ratings .
International Journal of Finance and Economics
16
(1),
pp. 1-15.
ISSN 1076-9307.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, Pedro and Rother, P.
(2009)
Ordered response models for sovereign debt ratings .
Applied Economics Letters
16
(8),
pp. 769-773.
ISSN 1350-4851.
Book Section
Gomes, Pedro and Afonso, A. and Rother, P.
(2008)
What "hides" behind sovereign debt ratings? .
In: Soares, J. and Pina, J. and Catalão-Lopes, M. (eds.)
New Developments in Financial Modelling .
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
pp. 314-343.
ISBN 9781847186744.
Gomes, Pedro
The recent movement towards a four-day working week .
In: Goulart, P. and Ramos, R. and Ferrittu, G. (eds.)
Global Labour in Distress, Volume II: Earnings, (In)decent Work and Institutions .
Palgrave Readers in Economics.
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN 9783030892647.