In the 2015 FCT call for individual projects, UECE researchers, with 3 funded projects that have UECE as the Principal Research Organization had a success rate of 43%, which compares with the national success rate of 13%. In addition, another successful project that has UECE as a Participating Organization, was also financed. Congratulations to the UECE researchers involved in the successful applications: António Afonso, João Ferreira do Amaral, Sofia Franco, Filomena Garcia, João Carlos Lopes, Luca Opromolla, Joana Pais, Ettore Panetti

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Ordem dos Economistas awarded in 2016 the Prize  António Simões Lopes -  Best PhD Dissertation, in the Economics and Management areas, approved in the Portuguese Universities, (ex aequo) to a member of UECE: Fernando Martins, for his PhD Thesis in Economics at ISEG, “Price and wage rigidities: microeconomic evidence”.

UECE Lisbon Meetings 2016: Game Theory and Applications Location: ISEG/UL, Portugal Date: November 3rd to November 5th, 2016 Organizers: Filomena Garcia, Joana Pais, Joana Resende and Luca Opromolla

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Fourth Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education Location: ISEG/UL, Portugal Date: 26 | 27 January 2017 Organizers: Miguel St. Aubyn, Margarida Rodrigues, Patrícia Costa

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6th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments ISEG/UL – School of Economics and Management / University of Lisbon Lisbon, 23th of June 2017


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The topology of African exports: Emerging patterns on spanning trees Tanya Araújo, Manuel Ennes Ferreira Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 Volume 462, Pages 962–976

The Price Relevance of Fiscal Developments António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles International Economic Journal, 2016 Pages 1-15

Forecasting errors by the Troika in the economic adjustment programme for Portugal,
Joao Ferreira do Amaral; Joao Carlos Lopes
Cambridge Journal of Economics 2016;