Macroeconomics Seminar with Marta Cota (Nova SBE)

Marta Cota is Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Finance Department of Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova BSE). She was awarded a PhD in Economics from CERGE-EI in 2024. In her final year of her doctorate, she she worked at the Dutch National Bank.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of household finance and macroeconomics, particularly the micro-to-macro approach, wherein she models financial decision-making at the individual level based on data patterns, and subsequently derives conclusions at the aggregate level. Her work primarily addresses inequality arising from individual biases, search and cognitive frictions, or networks. In 2024, she received an important support grant from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy at University College London (UCL).

Marta Cota's website

She will present a paper, joint with Maria Frech, Marta Morazzoni, and Michael Tallent, at the next Macroeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Gender Differences in Savings Over the Life-Cycle: The Role of Financial Literacy (read paper, PDF 2.7 MB)

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Francesco BIANCHI (Johns Hopkins) on April 1st.