João B. Duarte is Associate Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016). His research focuses on the macroeconomics of housing, monetary policy transmission, and building data infrastructure for frontier empirical research. He has published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the European Economic Review, with papers currently under Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies (2nd round), and the Journal of International Economics (2nd round). His work has been cited in the IMF World Economic Outlook, by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia (President Harker, 2023 speech) and Richmond (Macro Minute, 2024), by ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane (2023 speech), in two ECB Economic Bulletin boxes, in the BIS Bulletin and Quarterly Review, and covered in The Economist (December 2024). He has authored publications for the Federal Reserve Board (3 IFDPs + 1 FEDS Note), the ECB (WP 3165), the IMF (WP/20/108), and the Banco de Portugal. In 2024, he was awarded the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship. He has supervised three PhD students to completion — placed at the Bank of England, the ECB, and Rotterdam School of Management (tenure-track) — and currently supervises four additional doctoral students at Nova SBE. He is also engaged in applied economic research with societal impact in Portugal, including the PAT 2030 Development and Territorial Cohesion report commissioned by the Portuguese government, studies on venture capital, EU structural funds, corporate taxation, and housing for Investors Portugal and the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, and sector impact assessments across multiple Portuguese industries. He has presented research at the Portuguese Parliament and participates regularly in parliamentary hearings on housing and fiscal policy, with wide media coverage in Portuguese outlets.