Raising the Bar
Transatlantic Strategy Group
TAPIR Fellowship


EABC's 2007 Transatlantic Leadership Award



Amcham EU's 2006 Transatlantic Business Award


Dr. Luis B. Marques

Contact Information

Tel: (202) 663-5928

Email: lmarque3@jhu.edu

Dr. Luis B. Marques is the Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations.  He is also Assistant Professor of Economics at SAIS.  His interests include International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, with an emphasis on applied research on exchange rates. Topics studied this far include exchange rate forecasting and market microstructure, and welfare implications of exchange rate changes. His current research includes quantifying the cost to consumers of prospective EMU countries of adopting the euro at a depreciated conversion rate.

Prior to SAIS, Dr. Marques was a Teaching Assistant at the University of Rochester, Department of Economics and W. E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.  He has also served as a Junior Lecturer at Faculdade de Economia do Porto, University of Porto, Oporto, Portugal.  He has previously worked in Corporate Banking, Banco BPI, Oporto, Portugal.

Publications:

  • "Marketwide Private Information in Stocks: Forecasting Currency Returns," June 2007, with Rui Albuquerque and Eva De Francisco. Accepted for publication in The Journal of Finance.

Working Papers:

  • "The Costs to Consumers of a Depreciated Conversion Rate to the Euro," June 2007.
  • "Welfare Implications of Exchange Rate Changes," March 2007
  • "International Differences in the Level of CEO Compensation," March 2006, with Sayantani Ghose.

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