In this paper the determinants of health care expenditure per capita in Spanish regions are analyzed. The coexistence of several models concerning the degree of spending power decentralization and financing systems makes Spain a singular case and allows us to draw conclusions relevant for other...

The aim of the paper is to shed light on two key questions: How to equalize and how much equalize. In order to do it, a number of issues both political and economic must be previously examined. Moreover, while my interest concentrates into the third type of inter-territorial redistribution,...