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II CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HAVE EMPLOYED VC

Afonso, Antonio, Pedro Gomes, and Davide Furceri (2011). “Sovereign Credit Ratings and Financial Markets Linkages: Application to European data”. In: Working Paper Series 1347.

Afonso, Antonio and Joao Tovar Jalles (2015). “Economic Volatility and Sovereign Yields’ Determinants: A Time-Varying Approach”. In: Working Papers Department of Economics, University of Lisboa.

Afonso, Antonio and Joao Tovar Jalles (2017a). “Euro Area Time-Varying Fiscal sustainability”. In: International Journal of Finance & Economics 22.3, pp. 244–254.

Afonso, Antonio and Joao Tovar Jalles (2017b). “Sovereign Debt Composition and Time-Varying Public Finance Sustainability”. In: The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 42.C, pp. 144–155.

Afonso, Antonio and Joao Tovar Jalles (2017c). (2017c).“Sovereign Debt Effects and Composition:Evidence From Time-Varying Estimates”. In: Working Papers Department of Economics 2017/03, University of Lisboa.

Afonso, Antonio and Joao Tovar Jalles (2019). “Decomposing and Analysing the Determinants of Current Accounts’ Cyclicality: Evidence from the Euro Area”. In: Open Economies Review.

Baxa, Jaromir, Roman Horvath, and Borek Vasicek (2011). “Time Varying Monetary Policy Rules and Financial Stress”. In: ed. by S. Eijffinger and Donato Masciandaro. Edward Elgar Publishing. Chap. Time Varying Monetary Policy Rules and Financial Stress, pp. 268–312.

Baxa, Jaromir, Roman Horvath, and Borek Vasicek (2014). “How Does Monetary Policy Change? Evidence on In?ation-Targeting Countries”. In: Macroeconomic Dynamics 18.3, pp. 593–630.

Cohen, Gail et al. (2017). “Emissions and Growth: Trends and Cycles in a Globalized World”. In: IMF Working Paper WP17/191.

Conway, P., R. Herd, and T. Chalaux (2010). “Reforming China’s Monetary Policy Framework to Meet Domestic Objectives”. In: 6th NIPFP DEA Research Program Conference.

Cournede, Boris, Rudiger Ahrend, and Robert Price (2008). “Have Long-Term Financial Trends Changed the Transmission of Monetary Policy?” In: OECD Economic Department Working Papers 634, 0_1.

Cournede, Boris and Frederic Gonand (2006). “Restoring Fiscal Sustain-ability in the Euro Area: Raise Taxes or Curb Spending?” In: Working Paper.

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Flaschel, Peter (2008). “Linking Goods with Labor Markets: Okun’s Law and Beyond”. In: Topics in Applied Macrodynamic Theory. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 213–283.

Flaschel, Peter and Ekkehart Schlicht (2006). “The New Keynesian Theory and the New Phillips Curves: A Competing Approach”. In: Quantitative and Empirical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Macromodels. Ed. by Carl Chiarella et al. Elsevier. Chap. The New Keynesian Theory and the New Phillips Curves: A Competing Approach, pp. 113–145.

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Furceri, Davide and Joao Tovar Jalles (2017). “Fiscal Stabilization and Productive Investment: Evidence from Advanced Economies”. In: Working Paper.

Furceri, Davide and Joao Tovar Jalles (2018). “Fiscal counter-cyclicality and productive investment: evidence from advanced economies”. In: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.

Furceri, Davide, Joao Tovar Jalles, and Aleksandra Zdzienicka (2017). “China Spillovers: New Evidence from Time-Varying Estimates”. In: Open Economies Review 28.3, pp. 413–429.

He, Qizhi (2012). “Research on the Dynamic Relationship between Prices of Agricultural Futures in China and Japan”. In: Journal of Computers 7(9).

Jalles, Joao Tovar (2018). “On the Time-Varying Relationship between Unemployment and Output: What shapes it?” In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy.

Jalles, Joao Tovar (2019). Explaining Africa’s Public Consumption Procyclicality: Revisiting Old Evidence. Working Papers REM 2019/0100. ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.

Jalles, Joao Tovar (2019) Onthe Cyclicality of Social Expenditure: NewTime-Varying Evidence from Developing Economies. Working Papers REM2019/82. ISEG-LisbonSchool of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.

Jalles, Joao Tovar (2019). Polluting Emissions and GDP: Decoupling Evidence from Brazilian States. Working Papers REM 2019/0104. ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.

López-Herrera, Francisco, Humberto Valencia-Herrera, et al. (2016). “Hacia un Modelo de Valuación de Activos de Capital para México: Análisis de Activos Individuales con Coe?cientes Variantes en el Tiempo”. In: Panorama Económico 11.22, pp. 75–103.

Madsen, Michael Walter (2012). “Does Financial Stress Have an Impact on Monetary Policy?: An Econometric Analysis Using Norwegian Data”. PhD thesis. Department of Economics, University of Oslo.

Nogueira, Reginaldo Pinto (2009). “Testing credibility with time-varying coefficients”. In: Applied Economics Letters 16.18, pp. 1813–1817.

Rodriguez, Cesar M. (2014). “Financial development, Fiscal policy and volatility: Their effects on growth”. In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 23.2, pp. 223–266.