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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rafaela Vital Caetano

Citation names

  • Caetano, Rafaela Vital
  • Caetano, Rafaela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FC11-16BA-BC05
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5198-9929

Email addresses

  • rafaela.caetano@ubi.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Econometrics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2024
Ongoing
 Economia (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020
Concluded
 Economia (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
2015/09 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Economia (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 13 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021 - Current Essays on foreign direct investment, sustainable development and the environment
10.54499/2021.04776.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso. "From carbon leakage to (re)industrialisation: An assessment of the ecological footprint of imports in developed countries". Journal of Cleaner Production (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627.
    10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627
  2. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso. "Nonlinear relationships between Foreign Direct Investment decisions and environmental degradation in high- and middle-income countries". Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40812-023-00282-0.
    10.1007/s40812-023-00282-0
  3. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes; Vieira, Isabel. "Could Private Investment in Energy Infrastructure soften the environmental impacts of Foreign Direct Investment? An assessment of developing countries". Economic Analysis and Policy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030.
    10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030
  4. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes. "Can Sustainable Development Induce Foreign Direct Investment? Analysis of the Complex Inward and Outward Flows of Investment in European Union Countries". Journal of the Knowledge Economy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9.
    10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9
  5. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso. "Could energy transition be a game changer for the transfer of polluting industries from developed to developing countries? An application of game theory". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 65 (2023): 351-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.007.
    Open access • 10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.007
  6. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes. "How Can Foreign Direct Investment Trigger Green Growth? The Mediating and Moderating Role of the Energy Transition". Economies 10 8 (2022): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies10080199.
    Published • 10.3390/economies10080199
  7. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso; Isabel Vieira. Corresponding author: António Cardoso Marques. "A sectoral analysis of the role of Foreign Direct Investment in pollution and energy transition in OECD countries". Journal of Environmental Management 302 Part A (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114018.
    Published
  8. Caetano, Rafaela Vital. "Do greater amounts of FDI cause higher pollution levels? Evidence from OECD countries". Journal of Policy Modeling (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.10.004.
    10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.10.004
  9. Patrícia Hipólito Leal; Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques. "Is the Relocation of Polluting Industries Prompted by FDI Flow and Stock, Globalisation, Corruption and Regulation?". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 4 (2021): 1981-1981. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041981.
    10.3390/ijerph18041981
  10. Marques, A.C.; Caetano, R.. "The impact of foreign direct investment on emission reduction targets: Evidence from high- and middle-income countries". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 55 (2020): 107-118. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090354182&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.strueco.2020.08.005
  11. Fuinhas, J.A.; Belucio, M.; Castilho, D.; Mateus, J.; Caetano, R.. "Tourism and economic growth nexus in Latin America and Caribbean countries: Evidence from an autoregressive distributed lag panel". Academica Turistica 13 1 (2020): 21-34. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090795760&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.26493/2335-4194.13.21-34
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Caetano, Rafaela Vital. "The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries". Master, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10870.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/06 Circularity in waste management system: an assessment of the recycling rate performance of developing countries 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics (ICEE)
University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/11/02 Globalising pollution: An assessment of the ecological footprint of imports from OECD countries 7th APEEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/07 How do environmental regulation and energy transition shape the global value chains? the threshold effect and a sectoral perspective 18th IAEE European Conference
The Italian Association of Energy Economics (AIEE) (Milan, Italy)
2022/09/24 Could investment in infrastructure soften the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in developing countries? 17th IAEE European Energy Conference
The American College of Greece (Atenas, Greece)
2022/06/03 Has the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on CO2 emissions and Green GDP been influenced by energy consumption and transition? 5th edition of ICEE - Energy & Environment: Bringing together Economics and Engineering
School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/05 "What is the role of foreign direct investment in energy transition? An analysis of OECD countries" 7th Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics - ME3
DEGEIT and GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Portugal)
2020/06 "The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries" ICABM2020 - International Conference of Applied Business and Management
ISAG (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06 "Foreign direct investment-CO2 nexus: evidence of OECD countries" XXI International Congress of the World Economy Society
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current PhD seminars - Bi-Annual NECE Juniors Meeting (2023)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
2019/10/17 - 2019/10/18 4th Annual APEEN Conference 2019 - "Energy Demand-Side Management and Electricity Markets". (2019/10/17 - 2019/10/18)
Conference (Other)
 Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Energia, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/06/12 - 2019/06/14 "XXI International Congress of the World Economy Society" (2019/06/12 - 2019/06/14)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/05/17 - 2018/05/17 "Estudar Economia: Um Futuro, vários caminhos" (2018/05/17 - 2018/05/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Articles Evaluation for Scientific Reports - Springer Nature
2024 - Current Articles evaluation for Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy - Springer
2023 - Current Articles Evaluation for Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy
2022 - Current Articles Evaluation for Heliyon
2022 - Current Articles Evaluation for Cogent Economics & Finance
2022 - Current Articles evaluation for Applied Economics - Taylor & Francis
2021 - Current Article Editor for SAGE Open
2020 - Current Articles Evaluation for International Journal of Finance & Economics
2021 - 2021 Articles Evaluation for Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting
Distinctions

Award

2024 Ideia com potencial para se tornar projeto piloto vencedora
Fundación Bancaria Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona 'la Caixa', Portugal
2021 International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Student Prize for the best article/presentation
Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Energia, Portugal

International Association for Energy Economics, United States

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
2020 Student Merit Recognition
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal