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deficit targets on the basis of economic, institutional and political factors. The framework is applied to Spain's Autonomous … Communities (regions) over the period 2002-2015. Fiscal non-compliance among Spain's regions has proven persistent. It increases … containing fiscal noncompliance. Reducing fiscal non-compliance in multi-level governance systems such as Spain's requires a …
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productivity. In the case of Spain, the retail trade sector is subject to a rich set of regional regulations. This paper provides a … database and a set of indicators on the main restrictions to retail trade in place in Spain's Autonomous Regions (Comunidades …
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The evolution of Regional and Local governments' spending in Spain is currently under close scrutiny by national and …
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We analyze the impact of fiscal shocks on the Spanish effective exchange rate over the period 1981-2008 using a standard structural VAR framework. We show that government spending brings about positive output responses, jointly with real appreciation. Such real appreciation is explained by...
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We estimate the employment effect of a large fiscal stimulus in Spain (PlanE), in which the national government …
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This paper proposes a Markov-switching framework to endogenously identify periods where economies are more likely to:(i) synchronously enter recessionary and expansionary phases, and (ii) follow independent business cycles. The reliability of the framework is validated with simulated data in...
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This paper studies the effects of delegating control of sovereign debt issuance to an independent authority in a monetary union where public spending decisions are decentralized. The model assumes that no policy makers are capable of commitment to a rule. However, consistent with Rogoff (1985)...
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We document a secular increase in the share of purchases from the private sector in government consumption spending: over time the government purchases relatively more private-sector goods, and relies less on its own production of value added. We build a general equilibrium model in which...
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This paper estimates the dynamic aggregate effect of exogenous shocks to two key components of public expenditure in the United States: government income transfers and government spending. The identification strategy positions the structural shocks to public expenditures in an SVAR framework...
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outsourcing and public spending empirically. Spain offers an interesting case study from a broad perspective, as the degree of …
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