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ISSUE #11, Nov 2023

Research E-News

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Nova SBE faculty among the top 2% most cited researchers worldwide

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Nova SBE researchers are part of the restricted list of most cited worldwide for the third consecutive year. Pedro Pita Barros, Pedro Neves, Miguel Ferreira, Miguel Pina e Cunha, and Graham Miller (one of our most recent faculty) are part of this year's edition of the "World's Top 2% Scientists Ranking", annually conducted by Stanford University, based on data from Scopus - the reference database of article abstracts and citations for newspapers and other academic publications. Stanford University's ranking covered about 19,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. The ranking includes two different categories: career and final year (2022), and Miguel Pina e Cunha is mentioned in both categories of the ranking.

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Spotlight

Boons, M., Ottonello, G., & Valkanov, R. (2023). Do credit markets respond to macroeconomic shocks? The case for reverse causality. The Journal of Finance, 78(5), 2901-2943.

Decreton, B., Tippmann, E., Nell, P. C., & Parker, A. (2023). More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving. Strategic Management Journal, 44(10), 2566-2593.

Seifert, M., Ulu, C., & Guha, S. (2023). Decision making under impending regime shifts. Management Science, 69(10), 6165-6180.

Díaz-Saavedra, J., Marimon, R., & Sousa, J. B. D. (2023). A worker's backpack as an alternative to Payg Pension Systems. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21(5), 1944-1993. [jvad021].

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Publications

  • Bah, T. L., Batista, C., Gubert, F., & Mckenzie, D. (2023). Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia? Journal of Development Economics, 165, [103153].

  • Costa, E., Conceição, D., Von Hafe, F., & Millett, C. (2023). The first quantification of the carbon footprint of the Portuguese National Health Service: a positive but insufficient step forward. Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 41(2), 81-82.

  • Cunha, M. P. E., Clegg, S., Rego, A., & Berti, M. (2023). The paradox of the peasantry in management and organization studies. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 31(5), 1802-1813.

  • Lourenço, N., & Rua, A. (2023). Business cycle clocks: Time to get circular. Empirical Economics, 65, 1513–1541.

  • Neumann-Böhme, S., Sabat, I., Brinkmann, C., Attema, A. E., Stargardt, T., Schreyögg, J., & Brouwer, W. (2023). Jumping the Queue: Willingness to pay for faster access to COVID-19 vaccines in seven European countries. PharmacoEconomics, 41, 1389-1402.

  • Wan, C., Zejnilović, L., & Lavado, S. (2023). How differential robustness creates disparate impact: A European case study. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3442.

Achievements

  • Nova SBE and novobanco strengthen partnership to promote ESG

    Nova SBE and novobanco announced the expansion of their partnership, marked by the signing of a 3-year protocol dedicated to the broad scope of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). The partnership will focus on two main initiatives. The novobanco Chair in ESG led by Melissa Prado will focus on research and training in the field of Finance, with a focus on ESG topics, including research on the impact of sustainable investment on reducing pollution. novobanco will also become a founding partner of Nova SBE's Voice Leadership initiative, a program that aims to train business leaders in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The program will provide innovative theoretical and practical training in management, combined with personalized mentoring, to managers in this segment that represents the majority of the national economic sector. The partnership underlines Nova SBE and novobanco's commitment to facing the challenges of our time, from sustainability and environmental responsibility to leadership and innovation.

  • Career Life Design project by Nova SBE wins Research Grant from “la Caixa” Foundation

    The Nova SBE project which aims to promote more dignified, meaningful, and satisfying work for present and future generations, has just won a Research Grant, worth 100, 000 euros. Awarded by Fundação “la Caixa”, the Research Grant will allow research, through randomized clinical trials, into the effects of Career Life Design (CLD) on psychological and career resources, as well as the longitudinal effects on real career outcomes. career. Led by Samantha Sim, in collaboration with researchers Amélia Monteiro and Radek Oros, as well as Sebastian Kernbach (University of St. Gallen) the Collaborative Design-thinking Approaches, Adaptive Psychological Functioning & Career Development project is an initiative of the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center and Nova SBE Careers & Well-being.

  • Miguel Ferreira is academic coordinator of studies for Voice Leadership Initiative

    Miguel Ferreira participated in the launch of the Voice Leadership Initiative where he is the academic coordinator of the studies. He also attended the PRI in Person 2023, in Tokyo, where he participated in the discussion of the paper "Foreign Institutional Ownership and Corporate Carbon Emissions" by Jie (Jay) Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xintong Zhan (Fudan University), Weiming (Elaine) Zhang (IE Business School), and Yaojia Zhagn (Chinese University of Hong Kong). The paper shows how foreign institutions can contribute to reducing carbon emissions through engagement with the companies they invest in. He also presented the financial literacy program Finanças para Todos on NOVA Sustainability Days.

Researchers on Media

Cátia Batista

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Cátia Batista spoke to Expresso about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. She argued that “these people are getting out of risky situations. They're not just trying to improve their quality of life a little bit, they're trying to guarantee their well-being and that of their families at home.”

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Eduardo Costa

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Eduardo Costa gave an interview to Observador, where he defended that “Portugal has a problem of lack of autonomy and lack of accountability on the part of hospital administrations”. His presence at the talk "Models of (Sustainable) Financing of Hemodialysis" was also mentioned by Observador. He was invited to Antena Aberta (Antena 1) to discuss the hospital emergency crisis.

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Francesco Franco

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ECO quoted Francesco Franco in the context of the war between Israel and Hamas and the impotence of the IMF and the World Bank. He argued that “with the political division that exists at the moment, having a joint communiqué is going to be very difficult”.

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João Castro

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João Castro was interviewed by Gerador about Artificial Intelligence and the future of inequalities. He stated that “we can't regulate, but we can't be naïve enough to think that we'll catch everything at first” and that “what we see is almost an arms race”.

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José Tavares

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José Tavares’ essay “Política. Tragédia. Comédia” was published in Revista E (Expresso). In this essay, he discusses comedy and tragedy in politics and defends that “Tragedy and comedy seek an internal coherence, otherwise the polis will tire and citizens will turn away from political and other leaders. The institution we call democracy cries out for this proximity between people and power”.

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Samantha Sim

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The project “Collaborative Design-thinking Approaches, Adaptive Psychological Functioning & Career Development”, from the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center and led by Samantha Sim was mentioned in ECO and Jornal Económico.

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Melissa Prado

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In the scope of the renewal of the partnership between Nova SBE and novobanco, the novobanco Chair in ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance), led by Professor Melissa Prado, was mentioned in  Jornal Económico, I Online, and Marketeer.

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Paulo Côrte-Real

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Paulo Côrte-Real spoke to Jornal Económico about the Portuguese pension system and low incomes. He said, “We have to be aware of the reality we have, in which we still have very low median incomes. Obviously, it makes saving more difficult and it doesn't necessarily have to do with a lack of incentives”.

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Paulo Rodrigues

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Paulo Rodrigues was interviewed by Observador about the housing market crisis in Portugal, following his participation in a Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study. He said that he “doesn't see anything in this State Budget that promotes more house building.”

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Pedro Brinca

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Pedro Brinca made comments about the 2030 football World Cup to be held in Portugal and how it will affect the Portuguese economy to CNN, TVI, and Antena 1. He spoke about the Portuguese government budget proposal for 2024 and its measures to SIC Notícias, CNN, TSF, RTP3, Jornal Económico TV, Rádio Renascença, Expresso, ECO, among others. He was also in an Expresso/SIC debate. He discussed the Bank of Portugal forecasts for inflation in SIC Notícias and CNN and the Eurozone monetary policy in Jornal Económico. He also made comments about Nobel prize winner Claudia Goldin to Jornal de Negócios and his presence at the APCC Summitwas mentioned in Dinheiro Vivo. His conversation with Martin Wolf, in the context of Wolf’s new book presentation, was mentioned in Diário de Notícias and Observador. He was also interviewed on SIC about the low productivity in Portugal when compared to other European Union countries. 

Pedro Freitas

Pedro Freitas gave an interview to Rádio Observador where he stated that it was "important" to have a "signal" in the Budget about the recruitment of teachers in other areas, to respond to the problem of the lack of teachers. To Observador he said that the support for teachers to pay rent is the best measure in the State Budget for Education. For students, he said that there is a lack of greater focus on recovering their learning. To Publico he commented on the data from Direcção- -Geral de Estatísticas da Educação e Ciência (DGEEC) that shows that, except for Physical Education, all subjects with more teachers in the country lost teachers in the last decade. Mathematics is the one that lost more teachers and Portuguese is the oldest group.

Pedro Martins

Pedro Martins spoke to ECO about the job market and the unemployment rate in Portugal. He also commented on Observador and Jornal de Negócios about the Economics Nobel Prize. He was also interviewed by Le Monde about how young graduates continue to leave Portugal in search of better salaries and career prospects. Pedro Oliveira was also interviewed in this article.

Pedro Oliveira

Pedro Oliveira was present at a Gilead Génese Program conference on “Innovation as a driver of sustainability in health”. About this event, he spoke to SIC and was mentioned on Expresso, Sapo Lifestyle, Saúde Online, Health News, and Newsfarma. Furthermore, his presence at the Q-Day Conference was mentioned in Público and he also made comments to Expresso about Portugal’s R&D numbers, saying that “Portugal has had a very interesting path in terms of growth in R&D investment”.

Pedro Oliveira was also featured at Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana in the show 'Presa Diretta' on artificial intelligence.

Pedro Pita Barros

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Pedro Pita Barros was on Contra-Corrente (Observador podcast) and was quoted by, Expresso about the financial problems in the National Health Service. He was also on RTP and  É ou Não É? (RTP), in a debate about the government's hiring of doctors, which was later mentioned on RTP3. The conclusions of his “Briefing Notes: Health Sector Analyses” were featured in Líder Magazine and Human Resources. To ECO, 360 (RTP3) and Consulta Pública (Antena 1) he commented on the executive board of the National Health Service. Furthermore, he was quoted on CNN about doctors' working hours.

Social Equity Initiative

In the scope of the Social Equity Initiative, Susana Peralta, Miguel Fonseca, and Bruno P. Carvalho, of the Nova SBE Economics for Policy Knowledge Center, published a report about poverty in Portugal and the social elevator. The report concludes that there is no evidence that the intergenerational transmission of poverty is decreasing and it was mentioned in Público, Rádio Renascença, Jornal de Negócios, MedJournal, Jornal Económico, ECO, Líder Magazine, Executive Digest, Link to Leaders and Jornal de Notícias.

Susana Peralta

Susana Peralta commented on the P24 Podcast (Público) about the state budget for 2024. Also to Público, she spoke about inflation and tax revenues. She was interviewed on Grande Entrevista (RTP3) and Rádio Renascença about tax relief in the State Budget for 2024. She also commented on the Nobel Prize for Economics  to TSF, Jornal Económico, Diário de Notícias, and Dinheiro Vivo. She also continues to have a regular presence at Fora do Baralho (Observador podcast).

Nova SBE WiTH Africa

Nova SBE WiTH Africa released a report on tourism data in Africa. The report concludes that Cape Verde, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Tanzania, and Mauritius are the countries that stand out for the level of accessibility to tourism data in the continent and were mentioned in Lusa,  Empreendedor, Líder Magazine, Publituris, and Turisver.

Researchers Corner

Can organizations harness performance evidence to motivate workers?

Many organizations adopt missions centered around social impact or environmental sustainability. The economics literature has shown that workers care about the mission of their job, which proved to improve selection and enhance performance. However, while any organization can claim an ambitious mission, not all will fulfill it with the same success. How do workers respond to evidence about their organization’s performance in achieving the claimed mission?

My job market paper provides the first experimental evidence that an organization can leverage existing evidence of mission accomplishment to enhance performance without altering incentives. I design and conduct a field experiment testing an evidence-provision intervention in collaboration with a nationwide public health program of the Ministry of Public Health of Guinea-Bissau. In particular, I provide front-line service providers with correct and up-to-date evidence of the program’s effectiveness in achieving the claimed mission of improving maternal, newborn, and child health. The intervention draws upon the official program evaluation. It provides data on the program’s target health indicators at the local level, their recent evolution, and the program’s effectiveness in improving them.

The main finding is an increase of 39 percent in healthcare services delivered door-to-door six months after the intervention. In particular, program recipients assigned to workers in the treatment group report receiving both more frequent and longer door-to-door visits compared to those in the control group. Moreover, they note a more comprehensive healthcare promotion and express higher satisfaction with the program.

These findings show the feasibility of leveraging existing evidence of mission accomplishments to enhance workers’ performance even in settings with scarce resources. They hold significant implications for public service delivery programs and underscore the potential of evidence-driven strategies to advance organizational goals. The direct policy recommendation emanating from this study is for mission-oriented organizations to explore the untapped potential of available evidence.


Mattia Fracchia, PhD candidate at Nova SBE 

Opinion Articles

Events

  • Arash Laghaie at IRM-HSG Research Talk Series

    Arash Laghaie attended the IRM-HSG Research Talk Series at the University of St. Gallen to discuss causal mediation. He was also at the ACR conference in Seattle, where he gave a Process Analysis workshop with a tutorial on why and how to apply a novel methodological toolkit to find evidence in favor of causal mediation.

  • Data Science KC presents study at National Day of Mutualism event

    The Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center was invited to participate in a celebration of the National Day of Mutualism 2023, an initiative of APM-RedeMut - Associação Portuguesa de Mutualidades in partnership with Associação Mutualista Engenheiros and all associated Mutualist Associations. Cátia Cohen represented Nova SBE and presented a study that we are carrying out together with APM-RedeMut, within the scope of the Social Database project, characterizing the services developed by mutual societies in terms of health, social responses, social security benefits, and instrumental economic activities. At the event, were presented the results regarding the characterization of mutual associations and health activities.

  • Health Economics & Management KC held a media talk about the 2024 State Budget

    Pedro Pita Barros and Carolina Santos (researcher at Nova SBE Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center) held a media talk to analyze the most pressing issues in the health sector in response to the proposals presented in the 2024 State Budget. The document proposes a vision shared for the health sector and promotes open and inclusive dialogue on the challenges of the health sector in Portugal.

  • Pedro Brinca at participated at APCC Summit

    Pedro Brinca participated in the APCC (Portuguese Council of Shopping Centers) SUMMIT - NextGen Retail Ecosystem where he spoke about macroeconomic trends challenges and opportunities. He also presented Martin Wolf’s Portuguese edition of the book “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”.

  • Pedro Oliveira gave the kick-off of the Nova SBE VOICE Leadership Initiative

    Pedro Oliveira gave the kick-off of the Nova SBE VOICE Leadership Initiative, a program designed to support the modernization and competitiveness of Portuguese SMEs. He also participated in the “Innovation as a driver of sustainability in healthcare” conference, in the scope of the 9th edition of the Gilead Génese Program.

  • Rodrigo Tavares participated in the FII 7th edition

    Rodrigo Tavares participated in the FII 7th edition “The New Compass” in a panel on green finance. He also attended the conference “ESG strategy for exporting SMEs” organized by AICEP – Agência para o Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal where he analyzed the challenges the sector faces.

  • Steffen Hoernig co organized PromethEUs Hybrid Conference 

    Steffen Hoernig organized, alongside the Institute of Public Policy-Lisbon, the PromethEUs Hybrid Conference Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and Regulation. PromethEUs is an independent network of four Southern-European think tanks active in their respective countries and at the EU level in the fields of economic, business, and geopolitical research. Steffen Hoernig participated in the Think Tanks perspective panel.

  • Nova SBE at NOVA Sustainability Days

    Ricardo Zózimo and Rita Nascimento, Project Manager, and PhD Candidate Nova SBE, participated in the 2nd Edition of the NOVA Sustainability Days. This year's edition was dedicated to the importance of partnerships for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Rita Nascimento talked about the importance of sustainability in an EU project and Ricardo Zózimo was the moderator of the panel about leadership for sustainability at the university.

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Other News

Pedro Pita Barros 2022 prize winner

The winner of the Pedro Pita Barros 2022 Prize is already known. Luís Sá (University of Minho), in the article “Quality provision in hospital markets with demand inertia: the role of patient expectations” published in the Journal of Health Economics in 2021, analyzes that, by developing a mathematical model, the sophistication with which consumers anticipate their future demand for hospital care and explores the implications of this sophistication for competition between hospitals. The author shows that lower degrees of sophistication can benefit consumers by inducing hospitals to compete more intensely, increasing the quality of their services. The Pedro Pita Barros Award, promoted by the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES), with the sponsorship of ANF - Associação Nacional das Farmácias, aims to encourage research in the area of Health Economics by young researchers and is awarded every two years.

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Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library at Research Data Management Forum

Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library will participate in Research Data Management Forum, where Susana Lopes, Nova SBE’s head librarian, and Rayanne Silva, Research and open science manager, will share the adventure of making the Figshare data repository from the Nova SBE a reality.  The new data repository is an exciting initiative, paving the way for cutting-edge research, innovation, and knowledge sharing in business and economics. This invaluable platform is a testament to our commitment to fostering a culture of data-driven insights and collaborative exploration. It will undoubtedly empower researchers, students, and professionals by providing a robust foundation for comprehensive data management and accessibility.

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