The empirical evidence on the relationship between political decentralization and corruption is far from clear. We develope a model that analizes the relationship between decentralization and corruption and show how cost–benefit calculations can lead public administrations to tolerate a...

The empirical evidence on the relationship between political decentralization and corruption is far from clear. We develope a model that analizes the relationship between decentralization and corruption and show how cost-benefit calculations can lead public administrations to tolerate a certain...

la literatura empírica que analiza la elección de universidad por parte de los estudiantes muestra cómo precio y distancia son los principales factores que explican esta decisión. Sin embargo, estos estudios no incorporan prácticamente indicadores de calidad de las universidades a la hora...

We present a model which allows us to show that stratification of public universities, according to the quality they offer and the quality of students they select, is a plausible result even in a public university system where tuition fees are uniform and decided by the administration. This...

. In this paper we try to shed some light on the determinants of the regional allocation of public employees by the Central and Regional Governments in Spain. We provide some evidence that public employment might have been used by the Central Government as a instrument to favour those regions...

Data on the fiscal deficits of Spanish public Administrations from 2007-2011 show a significant deviation with respect to the targets fixed for this period. This occurs even though those stability targets were approved both by the central Administration and the autonomous communities in the...