Marcelo Eduardo Alves da Silva Contact Information: Department of Economics Gardner Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3305 E-mail: measilva@email.unc.edu

Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics. Education: · Ph.D. Economics. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (expected June 2009). · M.S. Economics. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. · M.S. Economics. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001. · A. Economics. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, 1998. Working Papers: “Inflation Targeting in Brazil: an empirical evaluation” joint with Marcelo Portugal. Presented at the 57^th Econometric Society European Meeting - ESEM Venice – Italy/2002 and at the 2002 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society – LAMES. “Further Evidence on Wage and Productivity Differentials in Brazil” joint with Alexandre Barros. Presented at the 2003 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society – LAMES . “The recent Brazilian experience with Inflation Targeting: a preliminary evaluation” joint with Marcelo Portugal. PPGE/UFRGS Working Paper N. 2002/04. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. (In Portuguese) “The effects of Mercosul in the Brazilian Northeast” Presented at the XXV Brazilian National Meeting of Economics – ANPEC (In Portuguese). “Exports and Employment: an empirical test” (In Portuguese)