Vítor Castro

(2021) Why are credit booms sometimes sweet and sometimes sour?. International Journal of Finance & Economics, in print.

(2021) Government ideology and economic freedom. Journal of Comparative Economics, 49, 73–91.

(2021) What drives the duration of credit booms?. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 26, 1531-1549.

(2021) Economic liberalization, political regimes and ideology. Kyklos, 74, 463-487.

(2020) The collapse of credit booms: a competing risks analysis. Journal of Economic Studies, 47, 1437-1465.

(2020) Riding the Wave of Credit: Are Longer Expansions Really a Bad Omen?. Open Economies Review, 31, 729-751.

(2019) 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.

(2018) 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.

(2017) Spillovers from the oil sector to the housing market cycle. Energy Economics, 61, 209-220.

(2017) The impact of fiscal consolidations on the functional components of government expenditures. Economic Modelling, 60, 138-150.

(2017) Income inequality, fiscal stimuli and political (in)stability. International Tax and Public Finance, 24, 484-511.

(2017) Pure, White and Deadlyłdots Expensive: A Bitter Sweetness in Health Care Expenditure. Health Economics, 26, 1644-1666.

(2016) Are there political cycles hidden inside government expenditures?. Applied Economics Letters, 23, 34-37.

(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) Fiscal consolidation and financial reforms. Applied Economics, 47, 3740-3755.

(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) What determines the likelihood of structural reforms?. European Journal of Political Economy, 37, 129-145.