José Miguel Cardoso da Costa is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct)at Nova School of Business and Economics where he currently teaches Principles of Macroeconomic. In the past he has also taught Maths and other Macroeconomic courses at Nova SBE.
He received his PhD from Nova SBE in 2010, with a dissertation on Optimal Public Debt Management, after concluding an MSc at the LSE in 2001 and undergraduate studies in Coimbra in 2000.
He is also a senior economist at Banco de Portugal, working in the Monetary Policy Division of the Economics and Research Department. In the past he has worked several years at IGCP (the Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency), heading the Research and Reporting Unit between 2011 and2018. In that role he worked in close relation with the Ministry of Finance and international institutions, including rating agencies and institutional investors, as well as the IMF and EU institutions during the EU-IMF 2011-2014adjustment program and subsequent surveillance period.
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His research interests range between monetary and fiscal policies, with a particular focus on implications for the central bank´s balance sheet and public debt management.