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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 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.