Causes and Consequences of Openness

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Economic Integration and the Co-movement of Stock Returns, Economcs Letters (2009)

We analyze how economic integration affects the cross-country comovements in stock returns, in developed and...

 

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Trade, Factor Proportions and Politics, Review of Economics and Statistics (2008)

This paper tests the implication in Mayer (1984) that capital-poor individuals prefer more trade openness...

 

Can Openness Deter Corruption? (with Felipe Larraìn B.) (2007)

The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption levels discourage FDI inflows. In this...

 

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Decrease Corruption? (with Felipe Larraìn B.), Cuadernos de Economia (2004)

This paper assesses the effect of openness on corruption, using foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows...

 

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Does Foreign Aid Corrupt?, Economics Letters (2003)

We estimate the impact of foreign aid on corruption using geographical and cultural distance to...

 

Female Labor Force Participation and the Macroeconomy

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Assessing the "Engines of Liberation": Home Appliances and Female Labor Force Participation (with Tiago Cavalcanti), Review of Economics and Statistics (2008)

The recent literature on the macroeconomics of structural change has highlighted the importance of the...

 

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate (with Tiago Cavalcanti) (2007)

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all...

 

Women Prefer Larger Governments: Female Labour Supply and Public Spending (with Tiago Cavalcanti), Economic Inquiry (2007)

The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes...

 

Asset Returns

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Economic Integration and the Co-movement of Stock Returns, Economcs Letters (2009)

We analyze how economic integration affects the cross-country comovements in stock returns, in developed and...

 

Fiscal Policy and Asset Returns (with Rossen Valkanov) (2005)

We analyze the effect of taxes and government spending on quarterly market returns of stocks,...

 

Natural Disasters, Terrorism and Economic Performance

The Economics of Terrorism: What We Know, What We Should Know and the Data We Need (with Fernanda Llussá), Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness (2007)

Probably, and unfortunately also for the worst reasons, terrorism will be high on the political...

 

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The Open Society Assesses Its Enemies: Shocks, Disasters and Terrorist Attacks, Journal of Monetary Economics (2004)

This paper conducts a systematic investigation of the incidence and economic costs of terrorist attacks...

 

Economic History

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Democracy and Business Cycles: Evidence from Portuguese Economic History (with Miguel Costa-Gomes), European Review of Economic History (1999)

The Portuguese Republic of 1910-1926 was characterized by extreme instability in the political and economic...

 

Income Distribution

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The Distribution of Household Income and Expenditure in Portugal: 1980 and 1990 (with Miguel Gouveia), Review of Income and Wealth (1995)

From 1980 to 1990 Portugal experienced a generalized liberalization of economic activity, due in large...

 

Fiscal Policy

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FISCAL UNION CONSENSUS DESIGN UNDER THE THREAT OF AUTARKY (with Jaime Luque and Massimo Morelli), Centre for Economic Policy Research (2011)

Inspired by the current debate over the future of the monetary union in Europe, this...

 

Fiscal Conservatism in a New Democracy: “Sophisticated” versus “Naïve” Voters (with Paulo Arvate and George Avelino), Economics Letters (2009)

We use data from gubernatorial elections in Brazil to test the electoral reactions of “sophisticated”...

 

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Exchange Rates and Fiscal Adjustments: Evidence from the OECD and Implications for the EMU (with Luisa Lambertini), Contributions in Macroeconomics (2007)

This paper investigates whether monetary and exchange rate policies are important for the success of...

 

Fiscal Policy and Asset Returns (with Rossen Valkanov) (2005)

We analyze the effect of taxes and government spending on quarterly market returns of stocks,...

 

Partisanship and Government Size (with Ricardo Vicente) (2005)

Political factors have been put forward as explanations for business cycles since the 1970’s. Opportunistic...

 

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Does Right or Left Matter? Cabinets, Credibility and Fiscal Adjustments, Journal of Public Economics (2004)

This paper tests the widely held assumption that left-wing cabinets favor higher public spending and...

 

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The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments (with Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti), Brookings Papers in Economic Activity - Macroeconomics (1998)

From the introduction: In this paper we reexamine the research on the economic effects of...

 

Monetary Policy

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FISCAL UNION CONSENSUS DESIGN UNDER THE THREAT OF AUTARKY (with Jaime Luque and Massimo Morelli), Centre for Economic Policy Research (2011)

Inspired by the current debate over the future of the monetary union in Europe, this...

 

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Exchange Rates and Fiscal Adjustments: Evidence from the OECD and Implications for the EMU (with Luisa Lambertini), Contributions in Macroeconomics (2007)

This paper investigates whether monetary and exchange rate policies are important for the success of...

 

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Regional Currencies versus Dollarization: Options for Asia and the Americas (with Felipe Larraìn B.), Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

This paper undertakes an empirical assessment of Dollarization versus regional currency union as options for...

 

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Investir no Futuro - Colaborações Universidade Indústria em Portugal e nos EUA (with Francisco Veloso, Nuno Vasconcelos, Paulo Ferreira, and Pedro Conceição) (2003)
 

Portugal: Strategic Options in European Context (with Fátima Monteiro, Miguel Glatzer, and Ângelo Cardoso) (2003)