Research Interests

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Macroeconomics; Networks in Economics; Applied Econometrics

Biography

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Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago (2008); European Research Council Starting Grant (2013) for the project MacroNets, Production Networks in Macroeconomics.

Recent Publications

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Published Papers

Carvalho, V. M. and Tahbaz-Salehi, A. Production Networks: A Primer, Annual Review of Economics vol 11 (2019) pp. 635-663
Carvalho, V. M. and Grassi, B. Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle, American Economic Review vol 109 no. 4 (2019) pp. 1375-1425
Carvalho, V. M. From micro to macro via production networks, Journal of Economic Perspectives vol 28(4) (2014) pp. 23-48
Carvalho, V. M. and Gabaix, X. The great diversification and its undoing, American Economic Review vol 103(5) (2013) pp. 1697-1727
Acemoglu, D., Carvalho, V. M., Ozdaglar, A. and Tahbaz-Salehi, A. The network origins of aggregate fluctuations., Econometrica vol 9 no. 1 (2012) pp. 336-343

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics

Carvalho, V. M. and Tahbaz-Salehi, A. Production Networks: A Primer, (2018) CWPE1856
Carvalho, V. M., Nirei, M., Saito, Y. U. and Tahbaz-Salehi, A. Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake, (2016) CWPE1670
Carvalho, V. M. and Voigtländer, N. Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks, (2015) CWPE1550
Carvalho, V. M. and Grassi, B. Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle, (2015) CWPE1556
Carvalho, V. M. From Micro to Macro via Production Networks, (2014) CWPE1467

Recent Activities

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EEA 2020 Scientific Programme Committee Chair
Professor Vasco M. Carvalho, has been appointed the EEA 2020 Scientific Programme Committee Chair, for the 35th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, which will held at the ERASMUS University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), on the 24th - 27th August 2020.
Published on - Wednesday 13th November 2019

Faculty Articles Recommended for Undergraduate Teaching
Professor Vasco M. Carvalho, Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta have all had papers submitted to the Journal of Economic Perspectives, by fellow Professor's, as articles that have found useful to support teaching.
Published on - Tuesday 24th September 2019

Production Networks in Macroeconomics
Professor Vasco Carvalho was asked to give a keynote address at the 2019 ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement. The series of ESCoE Conferences on Economic Measurement aim to promote research on economic measurement and increase dialogue between academic economists, national statisticians and statistics users to improve economic measurement.
Published on - Wednesday 10th July 2019

Vasco Carvalho New Cambridge-INET Director
Cambridge-INET is delighted to announce that Professor Vasco Carvalho has been appointed as the new Director of the Institute.
Published on - Friday 3rd May 2019

Seventh European Conference on Networks
Cambridge-INET and the European Research Council (ERC) are holding the Seventh European Conference on Networks at Jesus College, Cambridge, on 10th-11th June 2019.
Event Date - Monday 10th June 2019 - Tuesday 11th June 2019

Research Grants

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Leverhlume Trust Prize (Leverhulme Trust)
Turing Fellow Award: Funding award for Turing-HSBC Programme (Alan Turing Institute)
Production Networks In Macroeconomics (MACRONETS) (European Commission (FP7))
Cambridge-INET Institute (C-INET) (Institute for New Economic Thinking)

Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

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The Cambridge-INET Institute
Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute

Teaching

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PIIB Paper 2 - Lent - Business Cycle Theory
PIIB Paper 6 - Michaelmas - Finance & Asset Pricing
PhD20 - Firms and Sectors in the Macroeconomy

PhD Students

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