Carlos Góes, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Economics & Private Sector Development.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Had my work used in Congressional committees as official grounds for debate and decisions
• Wrote dozens of policy-oriented data-driven op-eds for the Institute's website and outlets like Valor Econômico, Folha de São Paulo, and Veja
• Delivered a series of lectures across Brazil summarizing the work of the Institute and reporting on the findings of its papers
• Edited policy papers with data rich analysis designing evidence-based public policy for Brazil

Washington, DC (Remote)

• Preparing a report on county-level exports in Brazil between 1997-2023 and their labor-market impacts, decomposing by occupation, industry, and environmental-exposure and using detailed employee-employer matched data.
• Prepared a working paper on the dynamic long-run effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia over labor market and social outcomes using individual-level data.
• Prepared three chapters for the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) Development Report 2022 focused on the impact of trade shocks on local labor markets in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Remote)

I write a bi-weekly column on the economics section of O Globo, one the largest newspapers in Brazil.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Created a new version of the World Trade Organization's workhorse quantitative trade model to include the effect of trade on innovation and evaluate the impact of geopolitical (War on Ukraine, US-China decoupling).

Brasília Area, Brazil

• Served as Senior Economic Advisor & Division Chief for Economic Development at the Office of the President, using my statistical and analytical skills to produce policy blueprints for long-term institutional and.
• Co-led the efforts on Trade Reform, being the lead-author of a flagship policy report on trade liberalization, organizing a high level seminar in São Paulo, and helping push the trade reform agenda within the.

Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

• Taught "Applied Statistics with Python" in the Data Science department to ~100 students over the course of two semesters.
• Prepared syllabus, coursework, codes, and exams for the course.

Washington, DC

• Had my work featured on the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Le Monde, El País, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and other world-class outlets.
• Co-authored six papers on a range of macroeconomics and international finance topics, including an assessment of the infrastructure stock in Latin America, the impact of minimum wage policies over employment in Brazil.
• Mapped the changing patterns of interest rates in key emerging markets over the last half-decade using state-space yield curve models.
• Prepared daily surveillance reports regarding equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives, commodity and external sector high frequency indicators using Bloomberg, Datastream, and Haver Analytics data, focusing.
• Actively collaborated in the preparation of Article IV, Regional Economic Outlook, and World Economic Outlook reports.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Delivered review lectures about time series and panel data techniques used in Macroeconomics and Finance for both inference and forecasting, including single-equation (ARIMA, GARCH, dynamic panels) and simultaneous.
• Prepared tutorials and codes in STATA and Eviews to apply the theoretical statistical framework to economic analysis as, for instance, Okun's Law, Taylor Rule, Interest Rate Parity, money shocks, and oil prices.
• Wrote a short and simple 22-page macroeconometrics manual to support the student's understanding of coursework.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Organized datasets and created macroeconomic performance indices for Latin American and African countries
• Built macroeconometric and trade models to assess policy alternatives for Brazil, Paraguay, and Angola
• Assessed country risk and institutional stability of developing countries thereby supporting the publication of the Economic Freedom of the World Index 2012

Phd, Economics

Dissertation: Essays on Trade Dynamics.

Ma, Economics

Ma, International Relations And International Economics (Dual Degree), 3.7

• Specializations: International Finance & Quantitative Methods. • Selected coursework: Project Finance; Applied Econometrics; Risk.

Ba, International Relations, 4.88/5.0

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award from the Chancellor as the Best Student of the Class of 2010.