El IEB publica su primer Informe sobre Federalismo Fiscal en España. Los editores del informe son Núria Bosch y Albert Solé-Ollé, investigadores del IEB y catedráticos de hacienda pública de la Universidad de Barcelona. Este Informe se publicará anualmente e incluirá contribuciones de expertos en la materia procedentes del IEB...

This year the IEB publishes its first World Report on Fiscal Federalism. The editors of this report are the IEB researchers and University of Barcelona professors Núria Bosch and Albert Solé-Ollé. This report will be published on an annual basis and will include contributions from expert authors in the field,...

The aim of this paper is to track the location decisions of knowledge-intense firms in a redeveloped urban district in the city of Barcelona in which government policy has promoted the formation of a cluster of knowledge-based activities. After decades of economic and industrial stagnation in a district called Poblenou,...

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing ‘relocation’ mobility of firms leads to increasing ‘net’ tax revenues under fairly weak conditions. While enhanced relocation mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the...

We identify exogenous variation in incumbent policymakers’ re-election probabilities and explore empirically how this variation affects their investments in physical capital. Our results indicate that a higher re-election probability leads to higher investments, particularly in the purposes preferred more strongly by the incumbents. This aligns with a theoretical framework where...

This paper proposes an approach to measure efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service, namely real estate cadastral offices, which have not been analysed previously. This study has been made possible thanks to the database provided by the Directorate General of Real Estate Cadastral Assessment...