The paper analyzes differences in economic conditions of Spanish regions and theirevolution from the point of view of growth theory, emphasizing the convergence process.The characterization of this process varies depending on the type of data we use: thetraditional source, elaborated since 1955...

This paper presents the first results of a broader research carried out by the Instituto Valenciano deInvestigaciones Económicas (IVIE) on public capital and regional development in Spain. An estimation ofpublic capital endowments, for the years 1980, 1985 and 1990, is obtained, for the first...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of public capital, specially the role played by the different types of infrastructures and their territorial distribution in the productivity gains of the Spanish private sector. The analysis is carried out starting from an estimation of Spanish...

This paper ana1yzes the behavior of productive efficiency in the Spanish Regions for the period 1964-1989. From a growth accounting approach, it describes the regional evolution of total factor productivity (TFPs), based on a private input production function. A more strict efficiency measure is...

This paper questions whether the main argument in favour of decentralization (the recognition of a territorial diversity of preferences when deciding on public expenditure) is validated ID the Spanish Central-Regional Governments framework. Using information supplied by the Regional Government...

In this paper conditions under which compensatory policies for the unequal leve1 of regional development should be designed are proposed. It favours the principie of equal treatment of al1 citizens on the part of the public sector regardless of where they live. The inequalities are interpreted...

This paper questions the empirical evidence of the relationship between inequality and growth on the basis of the estimation of convergence equations. The criticisms are aimed in two directions - at the quality of the data and at the standard estimation procedure. It begins by describing in...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of public capital, the types of infrastructures in which it is invested, and their territorial distribution in the gains in productivity of the private sector in the Spanish regions in the period 1964-1991 using panel data techniques to control for...

The paper explains the evolution of total factor productivity in theSpanish economy during the years 1964-1987. In its first part it describesthe stylized facts of the Spanish growth process and, after discussing theefficiency measurement cntena to be used, points out that the Spanisheconomy...

With reference to the Baumol/de Long controversy over the importance of the sample selection when verifying the convergence hypothesis, the paper concludes that the convergence results are conditioned by the joint consideration of the United States and Japan in the same country sample. The...