This dissertation comprises two essays. The first essay explores how the size of government, as measured by the level of spending, affects growth. Theoretical models suggest a nonlinear relationship; however, testing this hypothesis empirically in cross-country studies is complicated by the...

This article examines whether real Health-care Expenditure (HE) is a luxury or necessity for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries over the period 1972 to 2004 within a panel unit root and panel cointegration framework. To realize this objective, we regress HE...

La crisis económica estuvo asociada inicialmente a un incremento de los plazos de pago y de la deuda comercial de las Administraciones Territoriales. Desde 2012 la Administración Central ha aprobado distintos mecanismos extraordinarios para el pago a proveedores de CCAA y CCLL, que han...

Incluye bibliografía ; The economic crisis was initially associated with an increase in regional and local government payment periods and trade debt. Since 2012, central government has approved various extraordinary mechanisms for the payment of local and regional government suppliers that have...

Event: Presentation of the Annual Report 2021. Organized by: Banco de España

Este artículo lleva a cabo una revisión de la literatura académica que estudia los determinantes del tamaño del sector público. En primer lugar, se analizan los modelos clásicos basados en el teorema del votante mediano, en el que las decisiones públicas vienen determinadas por las...

Este documento presenta un análisis pormenorizado de la estructura del gasto público en España y de su evolución reciente, en comparación con el resto de los países europeos. España presenta un peso del sector Administraciones Públicas (AAPP) asimilable al de los países de su entorno,...

The idea of a flat tax, a tax levied at a single rate, has become an increasingly discussed and implemented fiscal strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995, making them the first modern countries to adopt flat...

Developing country fiscal policy outcomes documented in data point to stark differences compared with developed ones. Most prominent difference is the excessive volatility of government consumption and transfer payments and their positive correlation relative to output. This seemingly...