Most of my teaching has been in open-economy macroeconomics, with due regard to fiscal and monetary institutions. My early interest in taxation and other constitutional aspects of industrial democracies has been reflected in the development process of Portugal and the lessons it may provide to developing and transition economies, as described in my keynote address to ESHET 2002, dedicated it to the memory of Jim Tobin. It is available here.
I gratefully acknowledge the influence of other former
Yale teachers and Princeton
colleagues, such as Dick Cooper, Joe Stiglitz,
the late Carlos Diaz, Pentti Kouri and Bill Branson, let alone of my early
mentors (the late João Lumbrales,
Pedro Martínez and Paulo de Pitta e Cunha, who are now colleagues
at the Lisbon Academy of Science) and other links, but this should not implicate
them in any of the shortcomings of my execution.
Paul Krugman - a friend since the carnation revolution
in Portugal - also helped my teaching a lot, even on the
Euro.
On May 25, 2001 I participated in a meeting on the teaching of economics
held at the University
of Evora, where I used my introductory course on macroeconomics at Nova
as a case study, with abundant reference to its last edition in Spring 1999. Since then, my teaching experience
has included: