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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rafaela Vital Caetano

Citation names

  • Caetano, Rafaela Vital
  • Caetano, Rafaela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FC11-16BA-BC05
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5198-9929

Email addresses

  • rafaela.caetano@ubi.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Econometrics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2025/06
Concluded
 Economia (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Carbon leakage and energy transition: essays on foreign direct investment, sustainable development, and international trade" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção
2020
Concluded
 Economia (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
2015/09 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Economia (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 13 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Investigação em Economia Gestão e Tecnologias de Informação, Portugal
2021 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal
Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal
2025/09/01 - 2026/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/07 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/02 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/07 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/09 - 2025/02 Essays on foreign direct investment, sustainable development and the environment
10.54499/2021.04776.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Manuel Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso. "Circularity in waste management system: an assessment of the recycling rate performance of developing countries". Environment, Development and Sustainability (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-025-07129-9.
    10.1007/s10668-025-07129-9
  2. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso. "From carbon leakage to (re)industrialisation: An assessment of the ecological footprint of imports in developed countries". Journal of Cleaner Production (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627.
    10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627
  3. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso. "Nonlinear relationships between Foreign Direct Investment decisions and environmental degradation in high- and middle-income countries". Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40812-023-00282-0.
    10.1007/s40812-023-00282-0
  4. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes; Vieira, Isabel. "Could Private Investment in Energy Infrastructure soften the environmental impacts of Foreign Direct Investment? An assessment of developing countries". Economic Analysis and Policy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030.
    10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030
  5. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes. "Can Sustainable Development Induce Foreign Direct Investment? Analysis of the Complex Inward and Outward Flows of Investment in European Union Countries". Journal of the Knowledge Economy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9.
    10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9
  6. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso. "Could energy transition be a game changer for the transfer of polluting industries from developed to developing countries? An application of game theory". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 65 (2023): 351-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.007.
    Open access • 10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.007
  7. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes. "How Can Foreign Direct Investment Trigger Green Growth? The Mediating and Moderating Role of the Energy Transition". Economies 10 8 (2022): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies10080199.
    Published • 10.3390/economies10080199
  8. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso; Isabel Vieira. Corresponding author: António Cardoso Marques. "A sectoral analysis of the role of Foreign Direct Investment in pollution and energy transition in OECD countries". Journal of Environmental Management 302 Part A (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114018.
    Published
  9. Caetano, Rafaela Vital. "Do greater amounts of FDI cause higher pollution levels? Evidence from OECD countries". Journal of Policy Modeling (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.10.004.
    10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.10.004
  10. Patrícia Hipólito Leal; Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques. "Is the Relocation of Polluting Industries Prompted by FDI Flow and Stock, Globalisation, Corruption and Regulation?". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 4 (2021): 1981-1981. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041981.
    10.3390/ijerph18041981
  11. Marques, A.C.; Caetano, R.. "The impact of foreign direct investment on emission reduction targets: Evidence from high- and middle-income countries". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 55 (2020): 107-118. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090354182&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.strueco.2020.08.005
  12. Fuinhas, J.A.; Belucio, M.; Castilho, D.; Mateus, J.; Caetano, R.. "Tourism and economic growth nexus in Latin America and Caribbean countries: Evidence from an autoregressive distributed lag panel". Academica Turistica 13 1 (2020): 21-34. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090795760&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.26493/2335-4194.13.21-34
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Caetano, Rafaela Vital. "The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries". Master, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10870.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/06 Circularity in waste management system: an assessment of the recycling rate performance of developing countries 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics (ICEE)
University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/11/02 Globalising pollution: An assessment of the ecological footprint of imports from OECD countries 7th APEEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/07 How do environmental regulation and energy transition shape the global value chains? the threshold effect and a sectoral perspective 18th IAEE European Conference
The Italian Association of Energy Economics (AIEE) (Milan, Italy)
2022/09/24 Could investment in infrastructure soften the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in developing countries? 17th IAEE European Energy Conference
The American College of Greece (Atenas, Greece)
2022/06/03 Has the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on CO2 emissions and Green GDP been influenced by energy consumption and transition? 5th edition of ICEE - Energy & Environment: Bringing together Economics and Engineering
School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/05 "What is the role of foreign direct investment in energy transition? An analysis of OECD countries" 7th Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics - ME3
DEGEIT and GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Portugal)
2020/06 "The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries" ICABM2020 - International Conference of Applied Business and Management
ISAG (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06 "Foreign direct investment-CO2 nexus: evidence of OECD countries" XXI International Congress of the World Economy Society
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current PhD seminars - Bi-Annual NECE Juniors Meeting (2023)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
2019/10/17 - 2019/10/18 4th Annual APEEN Conference 2019 - "Energy Demand-Side Management and Electricity Markets". (2019/10/17 - 2019/10/18)
Conference (Other)
 Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Energia, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/06/12 - 2019/06/14 "XXI International Congress of the World Economy Society" (2019/06/12 - 2019/06/14)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/05/17 - 2018/05/17 "Estudar Economia: Um Futuro, vários caminhos" (2018/05/17 - 2018/05/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/07/14 “Leaving No One Behind”: Energy Transition and Inequality.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Guilherme Fonseca Pinto (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2025/07/04 Transição Energética nos Municípios Portugueses e nos Cidadãos residentes na Região das Beiras e Serra da Estrela
(Thesis) Arguer
 Alexandre José Lacerda Raposo Félix (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Articles Evaluation for Scientific Reports - Springer Nature
2024 - Current Articles evaluation for Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy - Springer
2023 - Current Articles Evaluation for Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy
2022 - Current Articles Evaluation for Heliyon
2022 - Current Articles Evaluation for Cogent Economics & Finance
2022 - Current Articles evaluation for Applied Economics - Taylor & Francis
2021 - Current Article Editor for SAGE Open
2020 - Current Articles Evaluation for International Journal of Finance & Economics
2021 - 2021 Articles Evaluation for Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting
Distinctions

Award

2024 Ideia com potencial para se tornar projeto piloto vencedora
Fundación Bancaria Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona 'la Caixa', Portugal
2021 International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Student Prize for the best article/presentation
Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Energia, Portugal

International Association for Energy Economics, United States

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
2020 Student Merit Recognition
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal