Nuno Limão was born in Lisboa, on the 23^rd of May 1974.

His research area is Economics, particularly International Trade, Trade Policy and Political Economy.

Presently he is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, a resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund Research Department, (from 1/06/06 to 31/05/07) and a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK).

During 1998/1999, he was a summer intern (06/98-08/98) and afterwards a consultant (09/98-03/99) at the International Trade Division of the World Bank Research Group. In 2004 he was a visiting scholar at the same division of that institution.

He was a teaching assistant at the Department of Economics of Columbia University between 1997/1999, and a research assistant from 1999 to 2000.

He completed his Bachelor in Economics by the London School of Economics between 1993 and 1996 (“First Class Honors Degree” in Economics). He received his master in Economics from Columbia University, New York in 1998, and a PhD in Economics with distinction in 2001.

He went to the USA due to the quality of the PhD program in Economics at Columbia University. He received a scholarship from JNICT (Portuguese government) for four years and another one for one year from Fundação Gulbenkian.

Since 2001 he has authored or co-authored 14 research papers, of which eight have already been published and another six are to be published.

Until now he has changed research institution only once, from Columbia University to Maryland University but he has visited other institutions.

He is an independent investigator and currently has six PhD students under his supervision. He has also been the referee for several economic journals in the last years.

The principal field in which the scientific community best knows Nuno Limão is international trade. His research, which has an empirical and theoretical character, analyzes unilateral, regional and multilateral determinants of the commercial policies between countries. Specifically his work explores the interaction between different agreements. For example, recently he has shown in a series of articles that the explosion of a number of regional agreements, like European Union and Mercosur has led several countries to apply higher taxes in the importation of products from countries out of the regional agreement, which has severe economic costs. This is one of the main questions in this area of economics and Nuno Limão says, “My papers pioneered an empirical methodology to analyze these questions and provide evidence”.

  He has not yet explored the possibility of returning to Portugal.

AWARDS

Graduate Research Board Summer Award, University of Maryland, 2003 and 2006.

Funding from the UK’s Department for International Development for research on the Global

Trade and Financial Architecture, 2005.

Bhagwati Prize for best dissertation, 2002

Ph.D. scholarship, Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), 2000

Preceptorship, Columbia University, 1999, 2000

President's fellowship, Columbia University, 1997, 1998

Award for best M.A. thesis, Columbia University, Department of Economics, 1998

Ph.D. scholarship, JNICT (Portuguese national bureau of scientific research), 1996-2000

Scholarship, United World College 1990-92

Limao at econ.umd.edu