João Madeira is an Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at Boston University and worked afterwards at the University of Exeter and the University of York. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on the sources of business cycle fluctuations and in particular the role played by labour market rigidities. He currently works on understanding better inflation expectations and how disagreement in monetary policy committees arises and impacts the economy.