Tiago Freire

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the
             ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
                                                Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"




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 Education  Brown University, Providence, RI
Ph.D. in Economics, (expected) May 2009.
M.A. in Economics, May 2005.
   · Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate I, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2006-2007
   · Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) GIS Summer Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, Summer 2006
The University of Birmingham, England, UK.
M.Sc. in Economics with distinction, September 2003.
Thesis title: The Evolution of Bequest Motives: Empirical Evidence.
   · Royal Economic Society Easter School - “Public Economics and Political Economy”, The University of Birmingham, England, UK, April 2004
   · Small-group teaching, The University of Birmingham Staff Development Unit, England, UK, Fall 2003.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Licenciatura in Economics, September 2001.
   · Visiting student, Gothenburg University, Sweden, Fall 2000
   · Hofstra-Erasmus International Business Program, Erasmus University, Netherlands, Summer 2000


 Honors  Brown University, Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2005 and 2006
 and  Brown University, Graduate School Fellowship, 2004-2005.
 Awards The University of Birmingham, Fellowship, 2003-2004.
European Union, Erasmus/Socrates mobility grant.


 Field Work The 2007 Survey of Disaster Recovery in Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia (May 2007 - June 2007). Helped design 
the second wave of a survey targeted at fishermen, village heads and heads of fishermen group. P.I.: Prof. J. Vernon Henderson.
 Teaching Graduate Teaching Assistant, Applied Economics, Brown University, Spring 2007
 Experience  Teaching Fellow (instructor), Intermediate Macroeconomics, Brown University, Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Brown University, Spring 2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics I, Brown University, Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Econometrics, The University Birmingham, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004


 Work   Short Term Consultant, World Bank, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (July 2007-August 2007) - Finance, 
 Experience  Economics and Urban Development department.
Junior Financial Analyst, Fincor S.A., Portugal (July 2001-July 2002). Covered national stock market, tracking evolution of individual companies and producing analysis used toproduce reports and for media:
     · Compiled two reports daily - one for international customer produced before the market opened, analyzing potential movements for the day; the second, for domestic customers summarizing the main events of the day in the Portuguese and Spanish stock market.
   · Made comments on a daily basis for a local radio station and weekly for a national radio station
   · Invited for a week to make daily comments on major stock market events on national TV (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
   · Analysis produced was used as reference in national newspaper when covering the company
   · Responded to queries of customers, both domestic and international, on particular stocks
Assistant, Cynergi.net Lda., Portugal (Part-time September 1998 - September 1999).
Assistant, Expolider S.A., Portugal (Summer 1998).


 Skills Stata, SAS, R/S-Plus, E-Views, Ox, GAUSS,  PCGive, TSP and SPSS; ArcGIS and GeoDa; Linux and Windows user
Portuguese (native), English (Cambridge University Procifiency in English - 1995); Spanish (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera - Nivel Intermedio - 2005); French (Basic)


 Affiliations    Ordem dos Economistas - Portuguese Economic Association


 References  Available on request.