Tiago Tavares

Academic employment

1. 2026-presentAssistant Professor, University of Lisbon - ISEG (Portugal)
2. 2024-2026Assistant Professor, University of Minho and NIPE (Portugal)
3. 2024Visiting Scholar, CIDE (Mexico)
4. 2015-2024Assistant Professor, ITAM and CIE (Mexico)

Education

• University of RochesterUSA

  • Ph.D., Economics, 2015
  • M.A., Economics, 2011

• Universidade Católica PortuguesaPortugal

  • M.A., Economics, 2009
  • B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Economics, 2007

Research fields

Sovereign Default; Firm Dynamics; International Macroeconomics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crises; COVID-19 Economics; Labor Markets

Talks and conferences

1. 2026DGE/GPEARI (talk); Lisbon Macro Working Group (talk); 19th Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (presenter at conference); 2026 UK Stata Conference, London (participant; joint work presented by Miguel Portela)
2. 2025Department of Economics, ISEG (talk); 18th Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (presenter at conference)
3. 2024Search and Matching in Labor, Monetary, and Financial Economics (presenter at conference); Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (talk); CIDE (talk); XI Christmas Workshop in Accounting and Finance (presenter at conference)
4. 20231st Notre Dame-ITAM PODER Mini-Conference (presenter at conference, paper discussant); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference); Fall 2023 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (presenter at conference)
5. 2022FGV-EPGE in Rio de Janeiro (talk); 10th Luso-Brazilian Meeting in Macroeconomics (presenter at conference; paper discussant); Facultade de Ciencias Economicas e Empresariais de Vigo - Ecobas (talk); 15th Annual Meeting of the PEJ (presenter at conference); ITAM-PIER Conference on Macro-Finance 2022 (organizer)
6. 2021ITAM-PIER Conference on Macro-Finance 2021 (organizer); 2nd International Macro/Finance and Sovereign Debt Workshop at Sogang University (paper discussant); Sovereign Debt Workshop at the IMF (talk)
7. 2019GIC/Drexel LeBow Sovereign Debt Distress (paper discussant), Philadelphia; Athens University of Economics and Business (talk); 12th Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (presenter at conference); St. Louis Fed (talk/visiting); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference)
8. 2018SED, Mexico City (presenter at conference); LAMES 2018, Guayaquil (presenter at conference); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference); Rochester Conference in Macro and International Economics (presenter at conference); NBER-EFG Research Meeting (participant)
9. 2017Universidad Iberoamericana (talk); 17th SAET, Faro (presenter at conference); SED, Edinburgh (presenter at conference); 10th Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (presenter at conference); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference)
10. 2016XXI Macro Workshop, Vigo (presenter at conference); 9th Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (presenter at conference); 22nd Computing in Economics and Finance (presenter at conference); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference); Banco de Mexico (talk)
11. 2015University of Rochester (talk); CESifo-Delphi, Athens (presenter at conference); ITAM-PIER Macroeconomics, UPenn (presenter at conference); Stockman, URochester (presenter at conference); Banco de Mexico (talk)

Refereeing

International Economic Review; Journal of International Economics; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; Journal of Financial Research; IMF Economic Review; Latin American Economic Review; Journal of Political Economy; Latin American Journal of Central Banking; Journal of Macroeconomics

Teaching experience

• Supervising PhD studentsMariana Santos, University of Minho (2025-present)
• Supervising undergraduate and master theses2016-present
• Main instructor for PhD-level coursesAdvanced Macroeconomics, 2025
• Main instructor for master's-level coursesEconomics of Banking and Credit, 2025-2026; Finance, 2024; Research Seminar - Data Analysis, 2020
• Main instructor for undergraduate-level coursesInternational Macroeconomics, 2026; Introduction to Macroeconomics, 2026; Financial Markets, 2024-2025; International Macro, 2024; International Trade, 2015-2025; Economic Statistics, 2014; Intermediate Macroeconomics, 2013
• Teaching assistant for undergraduate-level coursesIntermediate Microeconomics, 2011 and 2014; Public Finance, 2014; Intermediate Macroeconomics, 2013; Economic Statistics, 2012-2013; Econometrics, 2012

Fellowships, scholarships, and awards

• Graduate Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2012-2014
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2009-2011
• Honors Tuition Scholarship, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2003-2008

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