This paper makes an argument for the reshaping of the current design of the Spanish budgetary system, pivoting around its legal submission to the balanced-budget rule. Based on a political economy approach to budgeting within the present context of the European Monetary Union, it is argued that...

Este trabajo analiza el programa de estímulo fiscal español, comparándolo con los planes fiscales adoptados en otros países –principalmente de la UEM- y con las características deseables recogidas en la literatura teórica respecto a su tamaño, composición, estructura temporal y...

Starting from the median voter model commonly used in the literature to analyse the determinants of the functional distribution of public spending, we propose a new multiproduct dynamic model that also allows one to classify the nature of the interaction –complementarity or...