NIPE - Centre for Research in Economics and Management

22/05/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, May 27th, João Oliveira in a .

João Oliveira is a PhD student in Economics at Leibniz University Hannover and currently a visiting researcher at the University of Minho. His research focuses on international trade, with a particular interest in how cross-border policies, institutions, and market structure shape trade flows, prices, and firm behaviour. His current work studies international cartels and their effects on global trade patterns using matched cartel and bilateral trade data.

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19/05/2026

📢21st Edition of NIPE Summer School – Ex Post And Ex Ante Methods For Program Evaluation

🗓️29th June to 1st July, 2026

📍University of Minho - School of Economics, Management and Political Science | Gualtar Campus - Braga, Portugal

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18/05/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, May 20th, Eduard Brüll in a .

Eduard Brüll is Research Manager at ZEW Mannheim. He holds a doctorate in economics from Heidelberg University (summa cm laude) and previously served as Interim Professor at the University of Mannheim. His research spans labour economics, digitalisation, and the application of machine learning and NLP methods to large-scale administrative and text data. Eduard is the author of tidyllm, an R package for integrating LLM APIs into data workflows, and of a semantic paper search engine for economic research used by researchers at over 60 institutions worldwide.

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30/04/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, May 06th, Hélia Costa in a .

Hélia Costa is an Economist at the Structural Policy and Research Division of the OECD Economics Department. Her research focuses on structural policy, firm dynamics, and productivity, with a particular emphasis on the macroeconomic and firm-level implications of climate change. Before joining the OECD, she worked at the London School of Economics, the Toulouse School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Italy.

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24/04/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, April 29th, Tony Berrada in a .

Tony Berrada is Professor of Finance at the University of Geneva (Geneva Finance Research Institute and Swiss Finance Institute). His research interests are in asset pricing, and particularly the role of learning in models with incomplete information.
Professor Berrada is a regular speaker at leading finance conferences and workshops worldwide. He teaches executive education courses on portfolio management. He is the head of research at the GIWM (Geneva Institute for Wealth Management), a non–profit foundation created to promote international partnerships with the University of Geneva in post-graduate education, executive education, research and knowledge transfer in wealth management.

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10/04/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, April 15th, Pedro Luís Silva in a .

Pedro Luís Silva is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is also an Assistant Professor of Research at CIPES (on leave), and a Research Affiliate at IZA(Institute of Labor Economics) and GLO (Global Labour Organization).
His areas of specialisation are educational economics, which focuses on higher education, labour economics, and applied microeconometrics. He focuses his research on the transition from high school to higher education and to the labour market.

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16/03/2026

13/03/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, March 18th, Pedro Freitas in a .
Pedro Freitas is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the What Works Hub for Global Education at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE).
His research focuses on the economics of education and human capital, with particular interests in teacher quality, teacher labour markets, standardized and teacher-based assessment, students’ aspirations, and international student mobility.

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20/02/2026

📢𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Wednesday, February 25th, Jillian Rickly in a .
Jillian Rickly is a Professor of Tourism at the University of Nottingham. She has spent much of her career investigating the role of authenticity/alienation in tourism motivation and experience, contributing significantly to the theoretical development and philosophical depth of this area.

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