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      Employment comovements at the sectoral level over the business cycle 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-12)
      This paper extends the technique suggested by den Haan (2000) to investigate contemporaneous as well as lead and lag correlations among economic data for a range of forecast horizons. The technique provides a richer picture ...
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      New Keynesian Model Features that Can Reproduce Lead, Lag and Persistence Patterns 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-04)
      This paper uses a new method for describing dynamic comovement and persistence in economic time series which builds on the contemporaneous forecast error method developed in den Haan (2000). This data description method ...
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      Optimal fiscal policy in a multisector model with minimum expenditure requirements 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Gorostiaga Alonso, Miren Arantzazu ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-03)
      This paper investigates optimal fiscal policy in a static multisector model. A Ramsey type planner chooses tax rates on each good type as well as spending levels on each good type subject to an exogenous total expenditure ...
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      Optimal Monetary Policy with Asymmetric Preferences for Output 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Scott, Patrick; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (2012-11-15)
      Using a model of an optimizing monetary authority which has preferences that weigh inflation and unemployment, Ruge-Murcia (2003, 2004) finds empirical evidence that the authority has asymmetric preferences for ...
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      Second-best tax policy in a growing economy with externalities 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Gorostiaga Alonso, Miren Arantzazu ORCID; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Hamilton, Stephen F. (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-10)
      This paper investigates the exploitation of environmental resources in a growing economy within a second-best scal policy framework. Agents derive utility from two types of consumption goods one which relies on an ...
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      Time Variation in an Optimal Asymmetric Preference Monetary Policy Model 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      This paper considers a time varying parameter extension of the Ruge-Murcia (2003, 2004) model to explore whether some of the variation in parameter estimates seen in the literature could arise from this source. A time ...