Sérgio Rebelo

Sérgio T. Rebelo (born October 29, 1959) is a Portuguese economist who is the current MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at the Kellogg School of Management in Illinois, United States.

He is also a co-director of the Center for International Macroeconomics at Northwestern University.

Rebelo was born on October 29, 1959, in Portugal.

He received his Licenciatura in Economics from Portuguese Catholic University in 1981, and went on to receive a master's degree in operations research at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1985, before being awarded a master's degree and doctorate in economics at the University of Rochester in 1987 and 1989, respectively.

His dissertation was supervised by Robert King and Paul Romer.

He was the recipient of the Doctoral Fellowship from the National Institute for Scientific Research from 1984 to 1987, when he also received the University of Rochester fellowship.

In 1986 he was awarded the W. Allen Wallis Fellowship from the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester.

Rebelo has been recognized numerous times for his teaching, often receiving awards decided by the student body.

Rebelo received the Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in 1987 and the Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1992.

Rebelo accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Finance at Northwestern University in 1988, becoming an Associate Professor there in 1991.

He received his doctorate in economics from University of Rochester in 1989, and has served in a variety of roles in the non-profit sector.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

He has been a member of the editorial board of various academic journals which include American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Growth.

He has studied the causes of business cycles, the impact of economic policy on economic growth, and the sources of exchange rate fluctuations.

His research primarily focuses around macroeconomics, economic systems, and international finance.

Besides for his permanent academic appointments, Rebelo also served as a visiting Assistant Professor in 1990–1991 and 1991–1992 at the Catholic University of Portugal (where he had previously been an instructor from 1981 to 1984.) For the 1991–1992 school year, Rebelo was the Director of the Executive Program in Banking as well as the Director of the Finance M.B.A. program at the Catholic University of Portugal.

Rebelo has served in a number of roles outside of academia as well.

From 1990 to 1992, Rebelo coordinated a major World Bank aimed at investigating the extent to which national economic policies effected long term growth rates, a project which built on his academic interests.

Between 1990 and 1992, Rebelo also served as research coordinator for the Bank of Portugal.

Rebelo is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he focuses on issue of international finance, as well as a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

In 1992, Rebelo accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, where he stayed until 1997.

One of his other most widely cited papers also examined the relationship between national policy and economic growth, and was published in 1993, entitled "Fiscal policy and economic growth."

Rebelo has also held a number of editorial positions.

From 1995 to 1998, he was an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review, and from 1995 to 2001, he edited the American Economic Review.

In 1997, Rebelo moved to the Kellogg School of Management to become the Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance and served as Chair of the Finance Department between 2000 and 2002.

He also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth from 1997 to 2004, Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association for 2003–2004, and has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics since 1995.

Rebelo's main body of research has focused on "the causes of business cycles, the impact of economic policy on economic growth, and the behavior of exchange rates".

He received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award four times, in the years 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2011.

He has won the Executive Masters Program Outstanding Professor Award twenty times.

Rebelo was made a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2006.

Rebelo has published a large number of highly cited papers; as of October 18, 2013, his work has been cited more than 20,000 times.

He has published more than 130 refereed articles.

His most well-known publication, "Long run policy analysis and long run growth" grew out of his dissertation work and focused on the effects of national policies on economic growth.