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We propose a smooth multibidding mechanism for environments where a group of agents have to choose one out of several projects (possibly with the help of a social planner). Our proposal is related to the multibidding mechanism (Pérez-Castrillo and Wettstein, 2002) but it is "smoother" in the...
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We present a model of cooperative production in which rational agents might carry out sabotage activities that decrease output. We provide necessary and su cient conditions for the existence of a Nash equilibrium without sabotage. It is shown that the absence of sabotage in equilibrium depends...
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This paper proposes an argument that explains incumbency advantage with- out recurring to the collective irresponsibility of legislatures. For that purpose, we exploit the informational value of incumbency: incumbency confers voters informa- ion about governing politicians not available from...
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Labour market reforms face very often opposition from the employed workers, because it normally reduces their wages. Also product market regulations are regularly biased towards too much benefitting the firms. As a result there remain many frictions in both the labour and product markets that...
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This paper analyzes the different compositions of the catalan governing coalitions during the current democratic period, and offers some predictions about the coalitions that can be expected in the future. During this period, in catalan politics, there have been two main political issues over...
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El pasado mes de julio el Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas hizo pública la liquidación del sistema de financiación de las comunidades autónomas de régimen común correspondiente a 2010, que marca la madurez del nuevo modelo acordado en 2009. En el presente trabajo se...
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En el presente trabajo se avanzan una serie de recomendaciones para la reforma del sistema de financiación de las comunidades autónomas de régimen común. La primera de ellas tiene que ver con la estructura del sistema y con el reparto de recursos entre regiones. El resto se centran en...
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En el presente trabajo se describe en detalle el funcionamiento del nuevo modelo de financiación regional aprobado en 2009, se analizan sus propiedades dinámicas y se ofrece una valoración crítica del mismo. También se cuantifican los resultados financieros a competencias homogéneas del...
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El pasado 15 de julio el Consejo de Política Fiscal y Financiera (CPPF) aprobó un nuevo acuerdo de financiación para las comunidades autónomas de régimen común. El documento en el que se recoge el acuerdo no es precisamente un prodigio de claridad expositiva y describe además un modelo...
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This note contains some addenda to a recent paper (de la Fuente, 2010) that analyzed the new Spanish system of regional financing and estimated its financial results for 2009. The note updates my previous estimates using the information contained in the recently published liquidation of the...
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