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Bruno T. Rocha. Completed his PhD and MSc in Economics at the University of Essex and a MRes in Economic Governance at Sciences-Po Paris. Researcher since November 2019 at REM/UECE (Research in Economics and Mathematics / Research Unit on Complexity and Economics) and Adjunct member of CEsA (Center for African and Development Studies) between January 2019 and November 2023; both units are part of ISEG, the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon. Previous postdoctoral experience at the Católica Porto Business School and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. Non-academic experience include among others the Portuguese Public Finance Council and the OECD. Published 7 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (all Scimago/Scopus Q1), 1 article in a national peer-reviewed journal, and a Handbook chapter. Participates or participated in 4 research projects. His main field of research is regional and urban economics and economic geography, with an emphasis on the effects of transport infrastructure; other areas include economic growth and development/comparative economics (with an emphasis on structural policy complementarities) and systemic banking crises in different historical periods. Was awarded an Individual FCT CEEC (Scientific Employment Stimulus) Assistant Researcher grant in November 2023 with the project "DynaMOTOR – Motorways in Portugal: Local Dynamic Effects and Political Economy Factors" (to be started in 2024). As of February 2024 has, in addition to the complete or submitted working papers listed in the CV below, 4 papers in progress, all of them on transport accessibility and economic geography.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Bruno José Trancoso da Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Bruno
  • Rocha, Bruno T.
  • Rocha, Bruno T. da
  • Rocha, Bruno Trancoso

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0B19-EA44-2624
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5355-788X
Google Scholar ID
QSkXezAAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
56566497700

Email addresses

  • brunorocha@iseg.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 213922792 (Professional)

Addresses

  • ISEG (Universidade de Lisboa): sala 211 Edifício Francesinhas II, Rua do Quelhas 6, 1200-781, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/01/29
Concluded
 Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Essex, United Kingdom
"Empirical essays on reform interactions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 N/A
2009/11/18
Concluded
 Master of Science in Economics (Master)
University of Essex, United Kingdom
"Lost growth and policy incoherency: an exploratory empirical study" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction
2006/09/14
Concluded
 Master Recherche en Gouvernance Économique (Master)
Institut d'études politiques de Paris, France
"At different speeds: recovering from the Asian Crisis (on the importance of policy complementarities for growth)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Très Bien
2000/10/06
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Economia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
 Bom (14/20)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/11/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/10/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2013/10/01 - 2015/09/30 Postdoc (Research) University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02 - 2019/07 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014/10 - 2015/09 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) University of Cambridge Peterhouse, United Kingdom
2012/10 - 2013/07 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) University of Essex Department of Economics, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/10 - 2017/09 Economist (Economic Analysis and Forecasting team) Conselho das Finanças Públicas (Portuguese Public Finance Council), Portugal
2008/05 - 2008/08 Consultant (Division of Structural Economic Statistics) OECD Statistics Directorate, France
2007/02 - 2007/12 Advisor / Consultant Portuguese Delegation to the OECD, France
2006/11 - 2007/02 Consultant OECD Economics Department, France
2005/02 - 2005/07 Intern, Francis Vals program (S&D Group) European Parliament Brussels, Belgium
2003/08 - 2005/02 Economist Instituto de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2002/04 - 2003/04 Técnico Superior Estagiário (Junior Statistician) Instituto Nacional de Estatística - Coimbra office, Portugal
2000/11 - 2001/12 Trainee AICEP Inov Contacto Program, Portugal
Sonae Sierra Brasil, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/10 - 2015/09 Do structural policies form a system? Complementarities in structural reforms and their effects on economic growth
00000
Principal investigator
University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom
 Cournot Centre
Concluded
2008/10 - 2012/09 PhD studentship
SFRH/BD/43279/2008
PhD Student Fellow
University of Essex Department of Economics, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/11 - Current TASSEL – Growth or Relocation? Transport Accessibility and Economic Activity Location
PTDC/GES-GCE/4046/2021
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/11 - 2022/09 TiTuSS – Transport Infrastructure and Urban Spatial Structure: Economic, Social and Environmental Effects
PTDC/EGE-ECO/28805/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/10 - 2015/09 Real financial linkages and start-stop phases of economic growth
00000
Post-doc
University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom
 Keynes Fund - University of Cambridge
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Joaquim Oliveira Martins; Bruno T. Rocha. "Reform design matters: the role of structural policy complementarities". In The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics, edited by Oleh Havrylyshyn; Elodie Douarin, 493-516. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-50888-3_19
Journal article
  1. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; Nuno Afonso; João de Abreu e Silva. "The local impacts of building a large motorway network: urban growth, suburbanisation, and agglomeration". Economics of Transportation 34 100302 (2023): 1-24. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012223000023.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ecotra.2023.100302
  2. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; Nuno Afonso; João de Abreu e Silva. "Motorways, local economic activity and commuting". Regional Studies 58 1 (2023): 164-177. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2023.2187768.
    Published • 10.1080/00343404.2023.2187768
  3. Bruno T. Rocha. "Long-run suburbanization trends in Portugal". Regional Studies, Regional Science 9 1 (2022): 513-515. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2022.2095299.
    Published • 10.1080/21681376.2022.2095299
  4. Bruno T. Rocha; Nuno Afonso; Patrícia C. Melo; João de Abreu e Silva. "What drives the allocation of motorways? Evidence from Portugal's fast-expanding network". Journal of Transport Geography 102 103384 (2022): 1-13. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692322001077.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103384
  5. Bruno T. Rocha. "Baixa produtividade: afetação de recursos e obstáculos ao crescimento das empresas na economia portuguesa". Notas Económicas 47 (2018): 31-45. impactum-journals.uc.pt/notaseconomicas/article/view/6065.
    Published • 10.14195/2183-203x_47_2
  6. Bruno T. Rocha; Solomos Solomou. "The effects of systemic banking crises in the inter-war period". Journal of International Money and Finance 54 (2015): 35-49. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261560615000182.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2015.02.003
  7. Bruno T. Rocha. "Let the markets begin: the interplay between free prices and privatisation in early transition". Journal of Comparative Economics 43 2 (2015): 350-370. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147596714001024.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jce.2014.10.003
  8. Jorge Braga de Macedo; Joaquim Oliveira Martins; Bruno T. Rocha. "Are complementary reforms a "luxury" for developing countries?". Journal of Comparative Economics 42 2 (2014): 417-435. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147596713000899.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jce.2013.06.003
Newspaper article
  1. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; João de Abreu e Silva. "O impacto das autoestradas na organização do território e desenvolvimento sustentável em Portugal", Público, 2022, https://www.publico.pt/2022/10/31/opiniao/opiniao/impacto-autoestradas-organizacao-territorio-desenvolvimento-sustentavel-portugal-2025901.
  2. Patrícia C. Melo; Bruno T. Rocha. "Trinta anos de investimento em autoestradas não tornaram o país menos desigual. A ferrovia deve fazer melhor", Público, 2021, https://www.publico.pt/2021/05/13/opiniao/opiniao/trinta-anos-investimento-autoestradas-nao-tornaram-pais-menos-desigual-ferrovia-melhor-1962231.
Online resource
  1. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; João de Abreu e Silva. What factors explain the allocation of motorways in Portugal? [blog post for the Portuguese Economy Research Report]. 2021. https://research.pej.pt/2021/08/what-factors-explain-the-allocation-of-motorways-in-portugal/.
  2. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; João de Abreu e Silva. Motorways, urban growth, and suburbanization [blog post for the Portuguese Economy Research Report]. 2021. https://research.pej.pt/2021/05/motorways-urban-growth-and-suburbanization/.
Working paper
  1. Mauricio S. de Carvalho; Patrícia C. Melo; Bruno T. Rocha; Isabel Proença; João de Abreu e Silva. 2024. "[submitted to Journal of Economic Geography] Market potential, road accessibility, and firm location: evidence from twenty years of road investment".
  2. Bruno T. Rocha; Patrícia C. Melo; Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva; Nuno Afonso. 2023. "[submitted to Land Use Policy] The effects of motorways on urban sprawl: causal evidence from Portugal".
  3. Nuno Afonso; Patrícia C. Melo; Bruno T. Rocha; João de Abreu e Silva. 2023. "[R&R Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais / Portuguese Review of Regional Studies] Going Big in a Small Country: Fifty Years of Motorways in Portugal".
  4. Bruno T. Rocha. 2021. "Comment on Bussière et al. (2013), “Estimating trade elasticities: Demand composition and the trade collapse of 2008-2009”, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics". https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fd078smz6avpsh/_comment_draft.pdf?dl=0.
  5. Bruno T. Rocha. 2020. "[R&R Journal of Policy Modeling] Revisiting the links between banking sector liberalisation, capital account openness, and financial depth: the importance of reform complementarity". https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ll6zbbondq1396/financial_depth_reform_complementarity.pdf?dl=0.
  6. Bruno T. Rocha; Solomos Solomou. 2019. "[R&R The Economic History Review] The effects of systemic banking crises in the first globalisation era (1870-1913)". www.dropbox.com/s/s898l5shesueytl/_submission_EHR_may24.pdf.
  7. Bruno T. Rocha. 2019. "Structural policies as a system: complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform". www.dropbox.com/s/lm7frnina0hat38/paper_complementarities_asofJun9.pdf.
  8. Bruno T. Rocha; Paulo Serôdio. 2019. "The macroeconomic effects of natural disasters in developing economies: a Local Projections approach". www.dropbox.com/s/4avt6plt1qn5dgs/naturaldisasters_LPs_fulldraft.pdf.

Other

Dataset
  1. Nuno Afonso; Patrícia C. Melo; Bruno T. Rocha; João de Abreu e Silva. TiTuSS Transport Database (February 2023). https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ry5dkty7t7.
    10.17632/ry5dkty7t7.1
Other output
  1. At different speeds: policy complementarities and the recovery from the Asian Crisis. Asian Development Bank Institute Research Paper No 74 [This is an ABDI paper not intended for submission to academic journals]. 2009. Bruno T. Rocha. https://think-asia.org/handle/11540/4179.
  2. Maximising Mexico's gains from integration in the world economy. OECD Economics Department Working Paper No 657 [This is an OECD paper not intended for submission to academic journals]. 2008. Bruno T. Rocha; David Haugh; Roselyne Jamin. https://doi.org/10.1787%2F230020040844.
    10.1787/230020040844
  3. OECD Economic Surveys: Mexico 2007. [This is the 2007 edition of the OECD's periodic economic survey of Mexico. The report was prepared by Bénédicte Larre, David Haugh and Bruno Rocha under the supervision of Stefano Scarpetta.]. 2007. Bruno T. Rocha; Bénédicte Larre; David Haugh; Stefano Scarpetta. https://books.google.pt/books?id=39bVAgAAQBAJ.
    https://doi.org/10.1787/eco_surveys-mex-2007-en
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/26 The impact of building a motorway network on urban sprawl: causal evidence from Portugal 5th Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure
Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and Grup de Recerca en Governs i Mercats (GiM, UB) (Barcelona)
2023/08/28 The impact of building a motorway network on urban sprawl: causal evidence from Portugal 62nd ERSA Congress
European Regional Science Association (online session)
2022/09/21 Efeitos locais da rede de auto-estradas: crescimento, suburbanização e expansão urbana dispersa [Local effects of the motorway network: growth, suburbanisaton, and urban sprawl] Transportes, Território, Economia [Transport, Territory, Economy]
Event organised by the TiTuSS project (Lisbon)
2021/09/17 Motorways, urban growth, and suburbanisation: evidence from three decades of motorway construction in Portugal 28th APDR Congress
Portuguese Association for Regional Development (Vila Real)
2019 The effects of systemic banking crises in the first globalisation era (1870-1913) 7th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments
UECE / ISEG (University of Lisbon)
2019 Structural reforms as a system: growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Annual International Conference on Development Economics and Policy
German Economic Association (Berlin)
2019 The effects of systemic banking crises in the first globalisation era (1870-1913) 15th Internal Conference
Católica Porto Business School
2018 Structural reforms as a system: growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform 19th AEEFI Conference on International Economics
Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (Vila-Real, Castellón, Spain)
2018 Comment on: Argimón, I. (Banco de España), "The relevance of currency-denomination for the cross-border effects of monetary policy". Slides: www.dropbox.com/s/cfl49f970k1quvq/_discussion_CIE2018.pptx 19th AEEFI Conference on International Economics
Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (Vila-Real, Castellón, Spain)
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
Durham University Business School
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
King's College London, Department of Management
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
King’s College London, Department of Political Economy
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
SOAS, Department of Economics
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
UCL, School of East European and Slavonic Studies
2015 Do structural policies form a system? Growth and complementarities between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
Overseas Development Institute, International Economic Development Group (London)
2015 The effects of inter-war banking crises Economic and Social History Seminar series
University of Oxford
2014 Banking crises and economic recoveries Keynes Fund for Applied Economics Research Day
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics
2014 A necessary trinity? Growth and interdependency between trade openness, capital account liberalisation, and banking sector reform Seminar
University of Reading, Department of Economics
2013 Let the markets begin: The interplay between free prices and privatisation in early transition PhD Research Strategy Seminar
University of Essex, Department of Economics

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/06 - Current Essays on the economic impact of 35 years of road investment in Portugal: estimating the linkages between transport accessibility, agglomeration externalities and displacement effects
Co-supervisor of Maurício Silva de Carvalho
 Applied Mathematics for Economics and Management (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2023/01 - Current The effect of motorways and urban spatial structure on travel mobility patterns in Portugal (tentative title)
Co-supervisor of Margarida Pessoa Vaz
 Master in Economics and Public Policy (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2022/10 - Current The influence of banking crises on suicide rates: a Local Projections approach (tentative title)
Co-supervisor of Iryna Nepip
 Masters in Statistics and Information Management (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2020/04 - 2022/01 An exploratory study on the economic impacts of wildfires in Portugal
Co-supervisor of Joana Sousa
 Masters in Statistics and Information Management (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2021/03 - 2021/06 Efeitos das crises bancárias sistémicas que ocorrem em países vizinhos [Effects of systemic banking crises that occur in neighbouring countries]
Supervisor of Afonso Jesus, Carmen Santos, Cláudia Monteiro and Gonçalo Coutinho
 Economics (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2020/04 - 2021/01 The resilience of higher education enrollment to banking crises
Co-supervisor of Carlota Oliveira
 Masters in Mathematical Finance (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2014/11 - 2015/04 An evaluation of the effects of government debt on economic growth
Supervisor of Martin Boden
 Economics (Degree)
University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06 - 2022/09 TiTuSS concluding event: "Transportes, Território, Economia" [Transport, Territory, Economy]. Half-day seminar with four presentations: two from TiTuSS members (myself and Prof João de Abreu e Silva) and two from experts from government entities, the Direção-Geral do Território [Directorate-General for the Territory] and PlanAPP [Competence Centre for Planning, Policy and Foresight in Public Administration]. See https://seminariotituss.weebly.com for the presentation slides. (2022/09/21 - 2022/09/21)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/11/14 - 2018/11/14 Three-hour session on the macroeconomic effects of banking crises in the past two centuries: "Crises bancárias: um eterno retorno?" [Banking crises: an eternal return?]. Part of non-degree program "Mais Saber". Slides: www.dropbox.com/s/1uzz8zc8vukdnxq/crisesbancarias_maissaber_2018Nov14_brunorocha.pdf
Other
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
2018/06/28 - 2018/06/28 Session chair
Conference
 19th AEEFI Conference on International Economics

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - 2023 Journal of Transport and Land Use University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
2021 - 2021 Economics of Transition and Institutional Change Wiley
2013 - 2013 Portuguese Economic Journal Springer-Verlag

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2014 - Current American Economic Association

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/02 - 2019/07 Workshops in Macroeconomics. Semester-long undergraduate module. Economics / Management (Licenciatura) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014/10 - 2015/06 Statistics and econometrics component of Quantitative Methods in Economics (Paper 3 of Part I of the Cambridge Economics Tripos). Year-long undergraduate module. Retained Supervisor, i.e., teacher in the Cambridge college system. Economics (Bachelor) University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics, United Kingdom
2012/10 - 2013/07 Classes in Methods of Economic Analysis (EC115). Year-long undergraduate module. Teaching assistant. Economics (Bachelor) University of Essex Department of Economics, United Kingdom

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/12 - 2023/12 Member of a three-member recruitment panel. Position: Head of Division for Economic and Financial Policy (Directorate-General for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/05 Member of a three-member recruitment panel. Position: postdoctoral fellow for project REMOBIL (Rethinking Mobility, Location Patterns and Urban Form after the COVID19 Pandemic. The Effects of Telework and E-shopping; PI: Prof João de Abreu e Silva). Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/04 Member of a three-member recruitment panel. Position: postdoctoral fellow for project TASSEL (Growth or Relocation? Transport Accessibility and Economic Activity Location; PI: Prof Patrícia Melo). Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Matematica Aplicada à Previsão e Decisão Económica, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/04 Member of a three-member recruitment panel. Position: postdoctoral fellow for project MASTI (Mobility as a Service and Socio-Territorial Inequalities; PI: Prof David Vale). Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2001 Prize for the best dissertation in Regional Development
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro, Portugal

Other distinction

2014 Robert Solow Postdoctoral Fellowship
Cournot Centre, France