He worked for the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Portugal. His interests include Macroeconomics, Economic Policy, Asset Pricing and Emerging Markets. His research has been published in journals such as Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Empirical Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance and North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and covered in the media such as The Economist.