Vítor Castro Collaborator
Working Papers
Political and institutional determinants of credit booms
Why are credit booms sometimes sweet and sometimes sour?
Publications
Lockdowns, vaccines, and the economy: How economic perceptions were shaped during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 71, 439-456.(2024)
Government popularity in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Economics & Politics, 36, 1382-1415.(2024)
An Empirical Analysis of Invalid Voting in Municipal Elections. Kyklos.(2024)
Is There a Pervasive World Real Credit Cycle?. Open Economies Review.(2023)
Economic liberalization, political regimes and ideology. Kyklos, 74, 463-487.(2021)
Government ideology and economic freedom. Journal of Comparative Economics, 49, 73–91.(2021)
Why are credit booms sometimes sweet and sometimes sour?. International Journal of Finance & Economics, in print.(2021)
What drives the duration of credit booms?. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 26, 1531-1549.(2021)
Riding the Wave of Credit: Are Longer Expansions Really a Bad Omen?. Open Economies Review, 31, 729-751.(2020)
The collapse of credit booms: a competing risks analysis. Journal of Economic Studies, 47, 1437-1465.(2020)
Budgets, expenditure composition and political manipulation. International Review of Applied Economics, 33, 172-187.(2019)
Political and Institutional Determinants of Credit Booms. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81, 1144-1178.(2019)
Politically driven cycles in fiscal policy: In depth analysis of the functional components of government expenditures. European Journal of Political Economy, 55, 44-64.(2018)
The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development. The Journal of Development Studies, 54, 191-211.(2018)
Shades of red and blue: government ideology and sustainable development. Public Choice, 175, 303-323.(2018)
Spillovers from the oil sector to the housing market cycle. Energy Economics, 61, 209-220.(2017)
Pure, White and Deadlyłdots Expensive: A Bitter Sweetness in Health Care Expenditure. Health Economics, 26, 1644-1666.(2017)
Income inequality, fiscal stimuli and political (in)stability. International Tax and Public Finance, 24, 484-511.(2017)
The impact of fiscal consolidations on the functional components of government expenditures. Economic Modelling, 60, 138-150.(2017)
Are there political cycles hidden inside government expenditures?. Applied Economics Letters, 23, 34-37.(2016)
What determines the likelihood of structural reforms?. European Journal of Political Economy, 37, 129-145.(2015)
Fiscal consolidation and financial reforms. Applied Economics, 47, 3740-3755.(2015)
Financial stress and sovereign debt composition. Applied Economics Letters, 23, 678-683.(2015)
Do debt crises boost financial reforms?. Applied Economics Letters, 22, 356-360.(2015)
Is fiscal fatigue a threat to consolidation programmes?. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33, 765-779.(2015)
The Portuguese business cycle: chronology and duration dependence. Empirical Economics, 49, 325-342.(2015)
Booms, Busts, and Normal Times in the Housing Market. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 33, 25-45.(2015)
Contacts
Address
Faculdade de EconomiaUniversidade de Coimbra
Av. Dias da Silva, 165
3004-512 Coimbra
Portugal