Catarina Goulão

 

 

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Citizenship: Portuguese

Contact Details____________________________________________________________

Email: goulao@merlin.fae.ua.es

Webpage: http://merlin.fae.ua.es/goulao/

Mobile phone: +351 919.262.109

Education______________________________________________________________________

September 2006            PhD in Economics, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain.

Thesis “Essays on Social and Private Insurance”

Committee: Claude d’Aspremont (CORE-UCL), Helmuth Cremer (IDEI, Toulouse School of Economics), Jean Hindriks (advisor, CORE-UCL), François Maniquet (CORE-UCL), Pierre Pestieau (Université de Liège, CORE).

Oct. 2000 – Jan. 2002    Master of Arts in Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Dissertation “An application to the Logarithmic ACD model to a security traded in the BVLP order driven Market”.

1994 – 1999                  Licenciatura in Economics (BA equivelent), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Professional Activity______________________________________________________

Since October 2007       Post-doctoral researcher at Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France.

Since October 2006       Visiting professor at Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, University of Alicante, Spain.

Jun 2002 –  Sept 2006    Researcher at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Aug 99 – Sept 2000       Financial analyst at Euronext Lisbon, Portugal.

Desired Teaching and Research Interest_____________________________

Primary Fields               Public Economics, Political Economy

Secondary Fields           Social Insurance, Health Economics, Game Theory, Voting Theory

Teaching Experience___________________________________________________________

Graduate Health Economics (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Undergraduate Mathematics (Universidad de Alicante) and Microeconomics (Universidade Católica Portuguesa).

Research Visits____________________________________________________________________

Since October 2007       Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France.

April 2007                     Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Sep 05 –  June 2006      Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France.

Invited Seminars____________________________________________________________________

November 2007             Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.

October 2007                University of Luxembourg.

April 2007                     DPTEA - Faculty of Economics - LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy.

Internal Seminars:         FAE (Alicante, 2006), IDEI (Toulouse, 2005), Université catholique de Louvain (several dates).

Grants_______________________________ ____________________________________________________

January 2008-               Co-applicant of the project “Procesos de decision e interaccion en contextos socio-económicos”, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, España, SEJ2007-62656/ECON  (852.700 EUR).

FellowshiPS_________________________ ___________________________________________________

Juin 06 – Sept 2006       CORE, ARC project “the Economic Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations”.

Fev 06 – May 2006       PRAXIS XXI, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

Sept 05 – Jan 2006        IDEI, University of Toulouse, project “Financing Retirement in Europe: Public Sector Reform and Financial Market Development”.

Jan 02 – Aug 2005        PRAXIS XXI, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

Papers______________________ ______________________________________________________________

1.Voluntary Social Insurance, job market paper (submitted).

Abstract: We look at the consequences of allowing social insurance to be voluntary when its coverage can be supplemented in the market. Social insurance pool risks and social contributions are increasing in income, while the market is affected by adverse selection. We claim that making social insurance voluntary does not lead to its collapse since there are always individuals either benefiting from redistribution and/or coverage not available in the market. Also, participation in voluntary social insurance becomes a sign of individuals' type and the market can use this information to design contracts. Therefore the coverage of low risk individuals might be increased and the effects of adverse selection are mitigated. The welfare consequences depend on the status quo. If in the status quo there is no social insurance, then there is a Pareto improvement, and in some cases all are strictly better off. If instead the status quo implements compulsory social coverage, then making it voluntary results in less redistribution.

 

2. Welfare Loss of a Top Up Insurance System (submitted).

3. Pooling and Redistribution with Moral Hazard, with Luca Panaccione (submitted).

work in progress_______________________________________________________________________

1.       Migration and Social Insurance, with Helmuth Cremer.

2.       Social Security and Early Retirement in Portugal, with Miguel Gouveia.

3.       Relative performance of Portuguese municipalities, with  Susana Peralta.

4.       Empirical Evidence of Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets – an application to the Portuguese health insurance market, with Eric Strobl.

5.       Retirement Policy Reforms and Labor Market Effects, with Miguel Gouveia and Eric Strobl.

Presentations at Scientific Meetings____________________________________________

·         The Economics of the Health Care and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Toulouse, January 25-26, 2008.

·         Royal Economic Society Third PhD Presentation Meeting, London, December 19-20, 2008.

·         XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Granada, December 13-15, 2007.

·         Journées Louis-André Gérard Varet, Marseille, June 14 – 15 2007.

·         Third Summer School on Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, CORE-UCL, June 3 – 7 2007.

·         1º Workshop APES, Economia e Política de Saúde, Caramulo, September 22 and 23,  2006.

·         The Eight International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul (Turkey), July 13 to 17, 2006.

·         Second Summer School on Economic Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, CORE (Belgium), May 29 – June 1, 2006.

·         World Risk and Insurance Economic Congress, Salt Lake City (USA), August 7 - 11, 2005.

·         10th Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, University of Essex (England), June 13- 15, 2005.

·         6th European Health Economics Workshop, Liège (Belgium), June 3 and 4, 2005.

·         Summer School on Economic Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, CORE (Belgium), May 30 – June 3, 2005.

·         9ª Conferência da Sociedade Portuguesa para a Investigação em Economia, Lisbon, October 8 and 9, 2004.

·         8° Encontro Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Lisbon, October 23 and 24, 2003.

Other Activities______________________________________________________________________________

Refereeing:                   Journal of Health Economics

2003-2005                     Member of the organizing committee of the UCL Doctoral Workshop.

2004/2005                     Student representative at the CORE Executive Committee and at the CORE Board.

Languages_________________________________________________________________________________________

Portuguese, native language.

Fluent in spoken and written English, French and Spanish.

Referees

Prof. Helmuth Cremer

 

helmut@cict.fr

IDEI

Université des Sciences Sociales, Manufacture des Tabacs
Aile Jean-Jacques Laffont Accueil MF 404
21, allée de Brienne
F-31000 Toulouse
France

Prof. Jean Hindriks

 

hindriks@core.ucl.ac.be

CORE

34 Voie du Roman Pays
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM

Prof. Pierre Pestieau

 

P.Pestieau@ULG.AC.BE

Boulevard du Rectorat, 7 Bâtiment 31, boîte 39

4000 Liège, BELGIUM

Prof. Shlomo Weber

 

sweber@mail.smu.edu

Department of Economics Southern Methodist University Dallas

Texas 75275

UNITED STATES

Last updated:  22 January 2008