Maria Eugénia Mata Professora Associada com Agregação da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa onde é responsável por cadeiras na área da História Económica e de História do Pensamento Económico. José Rodrigues da Costa EE, BBA, and MBA was for 22 years a visiting Professor of Finance of the School of Business and Economics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA), and for two years of the ISCTE. His areas of interest are Corporate Finance, International Finance, Investments, and Financial Derivatives. Since 1990 he has held key posts at the Lisbon Stock Exchange, where he participated in the re-establishment of the stock market in Portugal and in the process of internationalization of the Portuguese Exchange, including the integration into the innovative Euronext Group of Exchanges. Alone and in cooperation with the other two authors he has published in a number of scholarly journals and in the domestic press. David Justino Professor Associado com Agregação da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa onde é responsável por cadeiras de Sociologia Histórica. É autor do livro "História da Bolsa de Lisboa".