Research subjects in Microeconomics: market structure, regulation and antitrust policy; business strategies and sectoral analysis; innovation systems, industrial and technological policy, innovation policy assessment, productivity policies, cooperation and innovation.

Research subjects in Macroeconomics: monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rate and income policies; interest rate studies, exchange rate dynamics, inflation behavior, public debt dynamics; terms of trade, international reserves, external liabilities and balance of payments; economic growth.

Research subjects in International Economics: monetary and financial integration, capital flows, exchange rate regimes, financial crises, global imbalances, history of the international monetary and financial system; trade policy, technology and competitiveness, trade patterns and trade balances, global value chains, Dutch disease; BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).

Faculty: Aderbal Oliveira Damasceno, Ana Paula Macedo de Avellar, Carlos César Santejo Saiani, Cleomar Gomes da Silva, Clésio Lourenço Xavier, Fábio Henrique Bittes Terra, Flávio Vilela Vieira, Guilherme Jonas Costa da Silva, Michele Polline Veríssimo.