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António Afonso
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🇪🇺 🇵🇹 Professor of Economics, ISEG, University of Lisbon. President, REM–Research in Economics and Mathematics. Previous: ECB, CGD, IGCP, Ministry of Finance. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6926-2653
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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · 12h
New 3-bedroom flat, 150 sq m, Avenidas Novas, Lisbon, 1500000 EUR. New 3-bedroom flat, 164 sq m, Porte de Namur, Brussels, 1000000 EUR. Price in Lisbon is 50% higher than in Brussels. Per capita income in Brussels is 100% higher than in Lisbon.

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CESifo @cesifo.org · 21d
🚨Working Paper Alert!
"Drivers of New Business Creation in the OECD: The Role of Education and Taxation"
✍️ @theiiiman.bsky.social M. Carmen Blanco-Arana & Ana J. Cisneros-Ruiz

Find out how education and taxation drive new business creation in OECD countries 🌍: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · 22d
Stock and sovereign returns linkages: time-varying causality and extreme-quantile determinants. Forthcoming, International Review of Financial Analysis. António Afonso, José Alves, Wojciech Grabowski, Sofia Monteiro.

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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Oct 7
www.economist.com/briefing/201... Back in 2010 the Economist was the case for tax cuts: "A paper by António Afonso of the European Central Bank and Davide Furceri of the OECD found that increases in government spending as a proportion of GDP tended to be correlated with slower economic growth."
Sharing the pain
Increasing budget deficits and rising government debts are likely to entail fierce political battles—not least between taxpayers and public-sector workers
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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Sep 21
Happy to be in the World's top 1%! Elsevier Data Repository, Aug 2025. "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...

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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Sep 6
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu... A discretionary positive shock to the primary balance leads to a decrease in real government debt, a result consistent with a Monetary Dominant regime and sustainable fiscal practices.

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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Aug 28
14th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments. Fri, Jul 17, 2026. ISEG. Lisbon. uece2.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/events/2026/... Keynote: Roel Beetsma

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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Aug 22
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... António Afonso, Francisco Gomes Pereira. "An expansionary monetary policy stance, following an increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio, leads to lower primary balances."
Does monetary policy influence euro area fiscal sustainability?
This paper studies the impact of monetary policy on fiscal sustainability in the euro area. We extend a standard fiscal reaction function by introduci…
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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Aug 7
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António Afonso @theiiiman.bsky.social · Jul 10
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