<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> Este trabajo centra su interés en la problemática de la corresponsabilidad fiscal del régimen común de financiación autonómica. Se trata de contrastar su reiteradamente denunciada insuficiencia desde una perspectiva comparada con respecto a uno de los Estados federales que...

RESUMEN<br> <br> La equidad es uno de los principios fundamentales de los sistemas sanitarios públicos. En España la asignación de recursos sanitarios ha seguido un criterio puramente capitativo por lo que se plantea la idoneidad de repasar los métodos empleados en otros países, con el objeto de...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una valoración del modelo español de financiación autonómica y de los principales sistemas de experiencia comparada de federalismo fiscal. En este sentido, el modelo español permitiría incrementar los recursos financieros de las regiones,...

This paper evaluates the causal negative effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public-place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 2007 and 2011. Using monthly data from the universe of Swiss hospitals between 2004 and...

This paper explored the yardstick competition among Japanese municipalities in providing medical subsidy for infants and children. In recent years, against the background of rapidly declining birthrate in Japan, municipalities aimed to reduce the medical burden of families with small children....

The second generation fiscal federalism (SGFF) approach is used as a reference to analyze the political and fiscal institutional design of Bolivia’s decentralization model and its evolution. Subnational public finance data up to 2008 is used to verify that decentralization of expenditure was...

In this paper, I document evidence that intergovernmental incentives inherent in public sector defined benefit pension systems distort the amount and timing of income for public school teachers. This intergovernmental incentive stems from the fact that, in many states, local school districts are...

The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...