Pedro Cunha Neves

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Pedro Cunha Neves is a rising scholar at the intersection of international economics, automation, and macroeconomic policy. His research centers on how technological change—particularly robotics and automation—reshapes global production networks and labor markets. In his most cited work, "Automation and off(re)shoring: A meta-regression analysis" (2023, 21 citations), Neves synthesizes decades of empirical evidence to reveal how automation is fundamentally altering multinationals' location decisions, challenging the traditional offshoring paradigm that defined late 20th-century globalization. Building on this, his innovative 2024 paper "Robots and humans" develops a dynamic general equilibrium growth model that integrates fiscal and monetary policies with robot substitution of unskilled labor—a rare synthesis of growth theory with distributional concerns. While still early in his career, Neves' work has already garnered attention for its timely relevance amid global supply chain disruptions and the rapid adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. His research offers crucial insights for policymakers navigating the complex interplay between technological unemployment, social compensation mechanisms, and monetary policy in an age of increasing automation.