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João Duarte is an Associate Professor with Agregação in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, within the Business & Economics faculty. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and a Bachelor's degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in 2010. Prior to his appointment at Nova SBE as Assistant Professor in 2017—where he advanced to Associate Professor—Duarte held positions as Postdoctoral Research Associate in the ADEMU project at the University of Cambridge from 2016 to 2018 and Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College from 2016 to 2017.
Duarte's research specializations encompass macroeconomics, monetary policy, housing markets, economic growth, and structural transformation. He incorporates micro-founded features of housing markets into macroeconomic models to study monetary policy effects on housing and productivity dynamics, utilizing structural macroeconometrics. Key publications include "One Money, Many Markets" with Giancarlo Corsetti and Samuel Mann (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022), "Measuring Labor Supply and Demand Shocks during COVID-19" with Pedro Brinca and Miguel Faria-e-Castro (European Economic Review, 2021), "Monetary Policy, Housing Rents, and Inflation Dynamics" with Daniel A. Dias (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019), and "The Effect of Monetary Policy on Household Consumption Expenditures in Portugal: A Decomposition of the Transmission Channel" with Nuno Pereira (Portuguese Economic Journal, 2023). His scholarship has exceeded 1,000 citations on Google Scholar. Duarte has received the ECB’s Lamfalussy Fellowship (2024), Paul W. Boltz Fellowships (2013, 2014), Robert E. Demarest Teaching Award (2014), and multiple University of Illinois teaching honors. He teaches Macroeconomics (undergraduate) and Macroeconometrics (master's) at Nova SBE, referees for journals including European Economic Review and Journal of Monetary Economics, and serves on program committees for economic meetings.