A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime. This paper contributes to the debate using data from the...

Evidence of Political Budget Cycles from cross-countries studies has been rationalized as coming from voter’s cost to process available information and asymmetric information. This explanation was also adopted in most cross-province studies leaving aside variables related to the incentive...

Instituciones y política fiscal / Osvaldo Meloni y Mariano Tomassi -- Ciclos electorales en política fiscal / Daniel Lema y Jorge Streb -- Federalismo fiscal y economía política de la descentralización / Cecilia Rumi -- Economía política de las transferencias : un análisis para Argentina...