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Working Papers

2004

1. Tax reform with useful public expenditures
   Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Tax Reform with Useful Public Expenditures, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2006) View citations (21) (2006)

2000

2. Growth Effects of Shifting from a Progressive Tax System to a Flat Tax
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco View citations (5)

1999

3. Fiscal policy and productivity growth in the OECD
   Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco View citations (11)
   See also Journal Article Fiscal Policy and Productivity Growth in the OECD, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association (1999) View citations (12) (1999)

1996

4. Growth effects of a flat tax
   Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (7)
5. Welfare, stabilization, or growth: a comparison of different fiscal objectives
   Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (6)

1995

6. Optimal fiscal policy, public capital, and the productivity slowdown
   Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Optimal fiscal policy, public capital, and the productivity slowdown, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier (1998) View citations (64) (1998)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Are Transfer Payments Stimulative?—Sometimes
   Manchester School, 2025, 93, (4), 368-387

2021

2. Asymmetries in the effects of unemployment expectation shocks as monetary policy shifts with economic conditions
   Economic Modelling, 2021, 100, (C) View citations (6)

2018

3. Do US Government Tax Revenues and Expenditures Respond to Debt Levels and Economic Conditions Asymmetrically over the Business Cycle?
   Applied Economics and Finance, 2018, 5, (3), 8-21
4. Optimal monetary policy revisited: does considering US real-time data change things?
   Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (57), 6203-6219 View citations (2)

2017

5. Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of US government debt revisited
   Empirical Economics, 2017, 53, (3), 1193-1215 View citations (16)
6. Threshold cointegration between inflation and US capacity utilization
   Applied Economics, 2017, 49, (3), 289-302 View citations (2)

2016

7. Does consumer confidence affect durable goods spending during bad and good economic times equally?
   Journal of Macroeconomics, 2016, 50, (C), 86-97 View citations (43)

2014

8. Did asymmetric monetary preferences for the output gap disappear during recent economic times?
   Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21, (2), 113-117 View citations (2)
9. Employment comovements at the sectoral level over the business cycle
   Empirical Economics, 2014, 46, (4), 1301-1323 View citations (5)
10. Small-scale New Keynesian model features that can reproduce lead, lag and persistence patterns
    The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 14, (1), 267-300 View citations (3)
11. Time variation in an optimal asymmetric preference monetary policy model
    Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2014, 18, (1), 41-49 View citations (2)

2013

12. Policy effects of the elasticity of substitution across labor types in life cycle models
    Economic Modelling, 2013, 35, (C), 59-70 View citations (3)

2012

13. Optimal monetary policy with asymmetric preferences for output
    Economics Letters, 2012, 117, (3), 654-656 View citations (8)

2011

14. Barriers to technological adoption in Spain and Portugal
    Portuguese Economic Journal, 2011, 10, (3), 189-209 View citations (2)
15. Industry estimates of the elasticity of substitution and the rate of biased technological change between skilled and unskilled labour
    Applied Economics, 2011, 43, (23), 3129-3142 View citations (27)

2010

16. Second-best tax policy and natural resource management in growing economies
    International Tax and Public Finance, 2010, 17, (6), 607-626 View citations (2)

2009

17. INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS AND THE NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH MODEL
    Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47, (4), 815-837 View citations (2)
18. Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Multisector Model: The Price Consequences of Government Spending
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11, (2), 177-201 View citations (1)

2007

19. Allocating Government Education Expenditures Across K-12 and College Education
    Economic Theory, 2007, 31, (1), 85-112 View citations (34)

2006

20. Labor market trends with balanced growth
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006, 30, (5), 807-842 View citations (1)
21. Tax Reform with Useful Public Expenditures
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006, 8, (4), 631-676 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper Tax reform with useful public expenditures, Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory (2004) View citations (5) (2004)

2004

22. Growth Effects of Shifting from a Graduated-rate Tax System to a Flat Tax
    Economic Inquiry, 2004, 42, (2), 194-213 View citations (39)
23. The transition from dirty to clean industries: optimal fiscal policy and the environmental Kuznets curve
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2004, 48, (3), 1050-1077 View citations (27)

1999

24. Fiscal Policy and Productivity Growth in the OECD
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1999, 32, (5), 1215-1226 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Fiscal policy and productivity growth in the OECD, Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory (1999) View citations (11) (1999)
25. Uniform Two-Part Tariffs and below Marginal Cost Prices: Disneyland Revisited
    Economic Inquiry, 1999, 37, (1), 74-85 View citations (2)

1998

26. Optimal fiscal policy, public capital, and the productivity slowdown
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1998, 22, (6), 911-935 View citations (64)
    See also Working Paper Optimal fiscal policy, public capital, and the productivity slowdown, Working Papers (Old Series) (1995) View citations (3) (1995)

1997

27. On public capital analysis with state data
    Economics Letters, 1997, 57, (2), 209-212 View citations (14)
28. The link between tax rates and foreign direct investment
    Applied Economics, 1997, 29, (10), 1295-1301 View citations (52)

1996

29. Equivalence of the Standard and the Modified Switching Regression Models
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (2), 365-66

1995

30. Optimal tax rules in a dynamic stochastic economy with capital
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1995, 19, (5-7), 1165-1197 View citations (7)

1994

31. A diagnostic test without numerical integration (Economics Letters 42, nos. 2-3, 1993, pp. 129-132)
    Economics Letters, 1994, 46, (2), 181-182

1993

32. A diagnostic test without numerical integration
    Economics Letters, 1993, 42, (2-3), 129-132
33. Backward solving quarterly models with seasonal or annual shocks
    Economic Modelling, 1993, 10, (2), 90-95 View citations (1)

1991

34. Health Plan Choice and the Utilization of Health Care Services
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 73, (1), 85-93 View citations (13)

1989

35. The Demand for Employment-Based Health Insurance Plans
    Journal of Human Resources, 1989, 24, (1), 115-142 View citations (56)