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João Tovar Jalles

João Tovar Jalles

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Economics and Finance

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35
Citations
4694
World Ranking
2965
National Ranking
11

Overview

João Tovar Jalles is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal and has contributed extensively to the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research output encompasses 218 publications primarily in this field, with significant focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Accounting, and Political Science and International Relations.

The research topics João Tovar Jalles focuses on include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

Their recent published papers cover a range of themes and have appeared in recognized economic and policy journals. Selected recent works include:

  • For whom the bell tolls: Climate change and income inequality, 2023, Energy Policy
  • Recessions and total factor productivity: Evidence from sectoral data, 2020, Economic Modelling
  • Feeling the Heat: Climate Shocks and Credit Ratings, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The effects of macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy announcements on sovereign bond spreads, 2020, International Review of Law and Economics
  • Priorities for Strengthening Key Revenue Sources in Asia, 2023, Asian Development Review

João Tovar Jalles frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • António Afonso
  • Serhan Cevik
  • José Alves
  • Ana Venâncio
  • Sanjeev Gupta

This researcher has contributed to a variety of publication venues, with the most common being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IMF Working Paper
  • Economic Modelling
  • Comparative Economic Studies
  • Open Economies Review

In addition to journal articles, João Tovar Jalles has authored books, including at least one publication with Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks titled Revisiting Public Investment Multipliers: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Efficiency, and Capital Stock (2024).

Best Publications

  • Growth and Productivity: the role of Government Debt *

    António Afonso;António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter: a concise review

    Joao Tovar Jalles

  • Fiscal composition and long-term growth

    António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • Economic performance and government size

    António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles;João Tovar Jalles

  • How to measure innovation? New evidence of the technology–growth linkage ☆

    João Tovar Jalles

  • Macroeconomic effects of oil price shocks in Brazil and in the United States

    Tiago Cavalcanti;João Tovar Jalles;João Tovar Jalles

  • The Long-Run Decoupling of Emissions and Output: Evidence from the Largest Emitters*

    Gail Cohen;Joao Tovar Jalles;Prakash Loungani;Ricardo Marto

  • Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality

    António Afonso;António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • The Impact of Democracy and Corruption on the Debt-Growth relationship in Developing countries

    Joao Tovar Jalles

  • What Determines the Likelihood of Structural Reforms

    Luca Agnello;Vitor Castro;Vitor Castro;João Tovar Jalles;Ricardo M. Sousa;Ricardo M. Sousa

  • Revisiting fiscal sustainability: panel cointegration and structural breaks in OECD countries *

    António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • For whom the bell tolls: Climate change and income inequality

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  • Decoupling of emissions and GDP: Evidence from aggregate and provincial Chinese data

    Gail Cohen;João Tovar Jalles;Prakash Loungani;Ricardo Marto

  • The social and economic determinants of suicide in Canadian provinces

    João T Jalles;Martin A Andresen

  • Do Forecasters Believe in Okun’s Law? An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts

    Laurence Ball;João Tovar Jalles;Prakash Loungani

  • Assessing fiscal episodes

    António Afonso;António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • An Apocalypse Foretold: Climate Shocks and Sovereign Defaults

    Serhan Cevik;João Tovar Jalles

  • How Buoyant is the Tax System? New Evidence from a Large Heterogeneous Panel

    Paolo Dudine;João Tovar Jalles

  • Fiscal sustainability: a panel assessment for advanced economies

    António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • A longer-run perspective on fiscal sustainability

    António Afonso;António Afonso;João Tovar Jalles

  • Fiscal adjustments, labour market flexibility and unemployment

    Luca Agnello;Vitor Castro;Vitor Castro;João Tovar Jalles;Ricardo M. Sousa;Ricardo M. Sousa

  • A Narrative Database of Major Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies

    Romain Duval;Davide Furceri;Bingjie Hu;Joao Jalles

  • Do Forecasters Believe in Okun’s Law? An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts

    Laurence Ball;Joao Jalles;Prakash Loungani

  • A Narrative Database of Major Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies1

    Romain Duval;Davide Furceri;Bingjie Hu;João Tovar Jalles

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Afonso
Antonio Afonso University of Lisbon
Davide Furceri
Davide Furceri International Monetary Fund
Ricardo M. Sousa
Ricardo M. Sousa University of Minho
Romain Duval
Romain Duval International Monetary Fund
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Center for Global Development
Prakash Loungani
Prakash Loungani Johns Hopkins University
Laurence Ball
Laurence Ball Johns Hopkins University
Martin A. Andresen
Martin A. Andresen Simon Fraser University
d'Artis Kancs
d'Artis Kancs KU Leuven
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London

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