António José Vasconcelos Franco Gomes de Menezes Personal

António José Vasconcelos Franco Gomes de Menezes Personal

António José Vasconcelos Franco Gomes de Menezes
University of the Azores
[email protected]
www.uac.pt/ ~amenezes
Personal Details
Address: Universidade dos Açores, Rua da Mãe de Deus, 9501-801, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Place and Date of Birth: Ponta Delgada, Portugal, December 4th 1972
Nationality: Portuguese
Marital Status: Married, two children
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Boston College, USA, 2000
MA in Economics with Distinction, Boston College, USA, 1997
Advanced Management Program, Catholic University, Portugal, 1995
Erasmus Program, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1994
BS in Economics, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1994
Current Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of the Azores, Portugal, 2001 - .
Research Associate, CEEAplA, 2003 - .
Work Experience
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Universitá Bocconi, Italy, 2000
- 2001
Teaching Fellow, Boston College, USA, 1999-2000
Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, Harvard Summer School, USA, 2000
Teaching Assistant, Boston College, USA, 1997-1998
Research Assistant, Boston College, USA, 1996-1997
Teaching Assistant, Boston College, USA, Spring 1996
Teaching Assistant, University of the Azores, Portugal, 1994-1995
Articles in Refereed Journals
Menezes, António; Vieira, José and Rendeiro, Marco. "Eficiência Técnica dos Hospitais Portugueses 1997-2004: Uma Análise (Regional) com base num Modelo de Fronteira Estocástica." Revista
Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, 2007, forthcoming.
Menezes, António; Fortuna, Mário; Vieira, José and Faria, Sandra. "Determinantes da Participação dos Beneficiários no Programa do Rendimento Mínimo Garantido no Mercado de Trabalho."
2007, Economia, forthcoming.
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Medidas de disposição para pagar por atributos de voos
comerciais: Uma aplicação do modelo de McFadden ao corredor aéreo Ponta Delgada - Terceira."
Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, 2005, 10, pp. 15-26.
Menezes, António. "On The Effects of Economic Fluctuations on Productivity Growth." Revista
Portuguesa de Economia e Gestão, 2005, 2, pp. 59-68.
Menezes, António. "Demand Shocks and Productivity Growth." Portuguese Economic Journal, 2005, 4 (1), pp. 15-45.
Menezes, António; Vieira, José and Gabriel, Patrícia. "Low pay, higher pay and job quality:
empirical evidence for Portugal." Applied Economics Letters, 2005, 12, pp. 505-511.
Working Papers
Menezes, António; Peypoch, Nicholas; Solonandrasan, Bernardin, and Barros, Carlos. "An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator"
2007, submitted Health Economics.
Menezes, António; Sciulli, Dario, and Vieira, José. "Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers" 2007, submitted Economics Letters (available
as IZA Discussion Paper 2627).
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Training, Job Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction."
2006, revise and resubmit Spanish Economic Review.
Menezes, António. "Inter-Households Private Transfers and Underlying Motives: Evidence for
Bulgaria." 2006, revise and resubmit Notas Económicas (CEEAplA WP 02/2006; www.uac.pt/~ceeapla).
Menezes, António and Moniz, Ana. "Determinants of Length of Stay: A Parametric Survival
Analysis." 2006, revised and resubmitted Annals of Tourism Research (CEEAplA WP 19/2006;
www.uac.pt/~ceeapla)
Menezes, António; Moniz, Ana, and Vieira, José. "The Determinants of Length of Stay in the
Azores: A Count Model Approach." 2007, submitted Tourism Management.
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Willingness to Pay for Airline Services Attributes: Microeconometric Evidence from a Stated Preference Discrete Choice Model". 2006, revise and resubmit
European Transport (CEEAplA WP 01/2006; www.uac.pt/~ceeapla).
Pereira, Pedro; Almeida, António; Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "How do Consumers
Value Airline Services Attributes? A Stated Preferences Discrete Choice Model Approach." 2006,
submitted Management Journal.
Pereira, Pedro; Almeida, António; Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Willingness to Pay for
Airline Services: A Stated Choice Experiment." 2006, submitted International Journal of
Tourism Research.
Menezes, António. "Job Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction", Centre for Economic
Policy Research CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3616, 2002.
Menezes, António. "Severance Payments or Unemployment Benefits? Assessing Recipients’ Welfare under CARA Preferences." 2006.
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Hospital Cost Efficiency Rankings: How Robust and Volatile
Are Stochastic Cost Function Frontier Based Estimates?" 2006.
Menezes, António; Rocha, Maria and Pestana, Dinis. "Complying with Basel II and NonLognormal Returns: Evidence and Theory for the Portuguese Case." 2006.
Menezes, António. "Game Theory and Coordination Failures: Implications to Tourism Policy."
2006.
Menezes, António; Fortuna, Mário; Vieira, José and Silva, Francisco. "Computable General
Equilibrium Models: A Literature Review." CEEAplA Working Paper 06/2006.
Chapters in Books and Conference Proceedings
Menezes, António. "Implicações da Ciência Economia para a Política Sectorial do Turismo: Uma
Aplicação aos Açores." Conference Proceedings from the 11th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese
Society for Regional Development, Faro, Portugal, September 2005.
Menezes, António; Fortuna, Mário; Vieira, José and Faria, Sandra. "Determinantes da Participação dos Beneficiários no Programa do Rendimento Mínimo Garantido no Mercado de Trabalho."
Conference Proceedings from the 11th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Regional Development, Faro, Portugal, September 2005.
Menezes, António; Vieira, José and Gabriel, Patrícia. "Low pay, higher pay and job quality:
empirical evidence for Portugal." Cities in Competition, Selected Papers from the XV SpanishPortuguese Meeting of Scientific Management, Sevilha, Spain, February 2005 (ISBN: 84-9637815-2).
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "The Economics of Income Support and Labor Market Participation", in Mário Fortuna, José Vieira and António Menezes, eds., Income Support Programs
and Labor Market Participation, University of the Azores, ISBN: 978-972-8612-31-3.
Menezes, António and Vieira, José. "Emerging Theories on Income Support and Labor Market
Participation", in Mário Fortuna, José Vieira and António Menezes, eds., Income Support Programs and Labor Market Participation, University of the Azores, ISBN: 978-972-8612-31-3.
Books Edited
Income Support Programs and Labor Market Participation, with Mário Fortuna and José Vieira,
University of the Azores, ISBN: 978-972-8612-31-3.
Willingness to Pay for Airlines Services Attributes: An Application of Stated Preferences Discrete
Choice Models in the Regions of the Azores and Madeira, with José Vieira and Pedro Pereira, in
press.
Seminar Presentations
Technical University of Lisbon (2), Boston College (2), University of the Azores (5), Bocconi
Universitá , University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, CREST.
Conference Presentations
8th Annual Conference 2006, International Network for Economic Research (INFER), Cork, Ireland, September 2006.
12o Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Regional Development, Viseu, Portugal, September 2006.
European Economics Associations (EEA) Annual Meetings, Vienna, Austria, August 2006.
EcoMod International Conference on Policy Modeling, Hong Kong, June 2006.
SOLE-EALE, San Francisco, June 2005.
11o Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Regional Development, Faro, Portugal, September 2005.
Work Pensions and Labour Economics Conference, University of York, July 2005.
XV Spanish-Portuguese Meeting of Scientific Management, Sevilha, Spain, February 2005.
6th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Research in Economics (SPi E), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 2001.
VIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2001.
Conferences Organized
First Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal, University of the Azores, June 2007
(Local Committee).
International Meeting on Regional Economic Science, University of the Azores, September 2005.
International Workshop on Income Assistance Programs and the Labour Market, June 2003.
"Workshop sobre Programas de Apoio ao Rendimento: O Caso Português", University of the
Azores, March 2003.
First International Meeting on Research on Labour Economics, University of the Azores, June
2001.
Refereeing Activity
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Portuguese Economic
Journal, Tourism Management.
Fellowships, Honors and Awards
Graduate Dissertation Fellowship from Boston College, 1998 - 1999
Distinction Pass in Doctoral Examination in International Finance and Macroeconomic Theory,
1998
Distinction Pass in Doctoral Examinations in Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Theory, 1997
Doctoral Scholarship from Boston College, 1997 - 2000
Doctoral Scholarship from Luso-American Development Foundation ("FLAD"), 1995 - 1999
Scholarship from Erasmus Program, Spring 1994
Grants
Research Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture for the project "Macro Model
— An Instrument for Economic Policy Analysis for the Azores." (ARS Cooperative Agreement No.
58-4001-3-F186) (joint work with other researchers)
Research Grant from the European Union for the project "MOVIECAM — Análisis de Movilidad
en el Espacio Canarias-Azores-Madeira." (MAC/2.1/C8 - Interreg III B) (joint work with other
researchers)
Research Grant from the Portuguese NSF ("FCT") for the project "Employment Mobility and
Wage Mobility in the Portuguese Economy." (POCTI/ECO/37668/2001) (joint work with other
researchers)
Research Grant from the Portuguese NSF ("FCT") for the project "Income Support Programs
and the Labour Market." (POCTI/ECO/43307/2001) (joint work with other researchers)
Advising and Department Service
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics, University of the Azores, 2001 - .
Organizer of CEEAplA’s Seminar Series, 2005 - .
Dissertation Committee Chair: Maria Rocha (PhD in Economics; In Progress (IP)); Marco Rendeiro (MBA; IP); João Valente (MBA; IP); Sónia Joaquim (MPA; 2005).
Other Activities
Business Consultant, Board Member.