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Citizens' control and the efficiency of local public services

Roca, Núria Bosch; Queralt, Marta Espasa; Corral, … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

It is generally accepted that fiscal decentralization increases citizens’ control over politicians, fostering …

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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

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The effect of sub-national borrowing control on fiscal sustainability: How to regulate?

Vulovic, Violeta - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

This article examines effectiveness of sub-national borrowing control regimes in maintaining overall fiscal sustainability. The results suggest that regulating sub-national borrowing based on fiscal rules performs most efficiently in maintaining fiscal consolidation. Furthermore, sole reliance...

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Soft budgets and local borrowing regulation in a dynamic decentralized leadership model with saving and free mobility

Akai, Nobuo; Sato, Motohiro - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

This paper considers a simple dynamic decentralized leadership model with local borrowing and regional productivity enhancing investment. The central government is benevolent but cannot commit. The local governments strategically act while accounting for the ex post motive of the central...

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Full Characterisation of the Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustment: Evidence from Spanish Municipalities

Castells, Antoni; Esteller, Alejandro; Vilalta, Maite - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2004

By means of a dynamic panel data analysis, and using a database from municipalities of the province of Barcelona (1993-99), we describe their process of fiscal adjustment to a shock in tax capacity. About 25% of the shock is internalized through an increase in tax effort, 35% through a reduction...

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Decentralization of government and contracting with the private sector

Cortés, Darwin - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Using a simple model of incomplete contracts to characterize the relationship between decentralization and contracting … governments will contract more with the private sector. Then, I use the 2001 decentralization reform in Colombia to test these … of the fact that the level of decentralization is decided using an exogenous population threshold to identify causal …

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Does decentralization improve the efficiency in the allocation of public investment? Evidence from Spain

Esteller, Alejandro; Solé, Albert - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2005

The well-known "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) establishes the superiority of decentralized public provision … capital stocks by region both before and after the decentralization of such responsibilities. We find that investment in both …

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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects

Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper answers this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. These facts make it possible for us to separate...

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Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain: a dynamic panel data analysis

Hortas-Rico, Miriam - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

Urban sprawl has recently become a matter of concern throughout Europe, but it is in southern countries where its environmental and economic impact has been most severe. This low-density, spatially expansive urban development pattern can have a highly marked impact on municipal budgets. Thus,...

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Sending the pork home: birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities

Carozzi, Felipe; Repetto, Luca - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

We analyze the distribution of central transfers to municipal governments for the period between the 1993 and the 2005 electoral reforms using a panel of Italian municipalities. We find evidence that being the birth town of a Member of Parliament results in an increase in yearly transfers per...

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