Paulo M. M. Rodrigues is a senior research economist at the Economics and Research Department of the Bank of Portugal and Professor of Econometrics at Nova School of Business and Economics.  Before moving to Lisbon in 2008 he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Algarve, where he held several academic positions including vice-dean and dean of Faculty. His research interests include time-series econometrics, financial econometrics and empirical macroeconomics and finance.  He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles in several internationally renowned scientific journals, including Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Econometrics Reviews, International Journal of Forecasting and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He also serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals.

Current research interests include: Time-series econometrics, financial econometrics and empirical macroeconomics and finance.