Miguel Lebre de Freitas is assistant professor at Nova SBE. Along his professional life, Miguel has been involved in many projects of applied research, for institutions such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the ACP, Banco de Portugal, the World Bank, and the European Court of Auditors.

1998 - PhD in Economics - University of London

1992 - Master in Economics - Nova SBE

1986 - Bachelor in Economics - Nova SBE  

International Macroeconomics, Economic growth, the Portuguese Economy.

• Lebre De Freitas, Miguel (2023). Forecasting inflation with excess liquidity and excess depreciation: The case of Angola. Economic Change and Restructuring, 56, 473–514.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel (2022). International currency substitution and the demand for money in the euro area. Economic Modelling, 117.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel, Nunes, Luís Catela, Rodrigues, Madalena Sampaio (2018). Euro Area membership and the probability of a sudden stop: an empirical assessment. Jcms-Journal Of Common Market Studies, 56 (4), 1-18.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel, Nunes, Luis Catela, Neves, Rui Costa, Salvado, Susana (2015). Productive experience and specialization opportunities for Portugal: An empirical assessment. Portuguese Economic Journal, 14 (1-3), 5-30.
• de Freitas, Miguel Lebre, Veiga, Francisco José (2006). Currency substitution, portfolio diversification, and money demand. Canadian Journal of Economics, 39 (3), 719-743.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel (2006). Currency substitution and money demand in Euroland. Atlantic Economic Journal, 34 (3), 275-287.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel (2006). Portugal-EU convergence revisited: Evidence for the period 1960-2003. International Advances in Economic Research, 12 (3), 408-418.
• Lebre de Freitas, M. (2004). The dynamics of inflation and currency substitution in a small open economy. Journal of International Money and Finance, 23 (1), 133-142.
• de Freitas, Miguel Lebre, Pereira, Filipa, Torres, Francisco (2003). Convergence among EU regions, 1990-2001: Quality of national institutions and "objective 1" status. Intereconomics, 38 (5), 270-275.

• Freitas, Miguel Lebre De, Faria-e-Castro, Miguel (2020). The Krugman–Macedo diagram revisited. Economic globalization and governance. : Essays in honor of Jorge Braga de Macedo. Brites Pereira, Luís, Mata, Maria Eugénia, Rocha de Sousa, Miguel (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, 175-197.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel, Torres, Francisco (2020). Portugal: the economy. 23rd ed. Western-Europe 2021. Routledge, 595-601.
• Lebre de Freitas, Miguel (2020). Three decades of convergence without catching up. Estudos de homenagem a João Sousa Andrade. Duarte, António Portugal, Simões, Marta, Bação, Pedro, Martins, Rita (Eds.), Almedina, 517-526.
• Torres, Francisco, Lebre de Freitas, Miguel (2019). Portugal’s adjustment programme: The run-up to the sovereign debt crisis, programme design, implementation and legacy. The political economy of adjustment throughout and beyond the Eurozone crisis. : What have we learned?. Chang, Michele, Steinberg, Federico, Torres, Francisco (Eds.), Routledge, 122-156.
• Nunes, Luís Catela, Lebre de Freitas, Miguel, Neves, Rui Costa (2014). Productive experience and structural transformation: the cases of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany. Structural change, competitiveness and industrial policy. : Painful lessons from the European periphery. Teixeira, Aurora A. C., Silva, Ester G., Mamede, Ricardo Paes (Eds.), Routledge, 202-217.
• Leite, António Nogueira, Freitas, Miguel Lebre de, Cabral, Célia Costa (2009). Endividamento Externo e Dependencia Energética. Uma Nova Era da Energia: Energias Renováveis em Porugal.
• Leite, António Nogueira, Freitas, Miguel Lebre de, Costa-Cabral, Celia (2009). External Debt and Energy Dependency. A new energy era : renewable energy in Portugal.