“Flight from Urban Blight: Lead Poisoning, Crime and Suburbanization”

“Learning Dynamics in Tax Bunching at the Kink: Evidence from Ecuador”

The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) has published “IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance” 2018. For another year, the document compiles the various ‘IEB reports’ published during the year 2018 focused on the analysis of infrastructure financing, the use of fiscal policies in relation to the phenomenon of gentrification, the role of public budgets after the great fiscal crisis, and tax havens. The report has contributions from IEB researchers and leading international experts.
The IEB has been publishing this annual report since 2009. Conceived as a research paper on fiscal federalism, the IEB Report has broadened its thematic base to provide rigorous analysis of issues of general interest to society.

One of the main reasons that cities exists and thrive is that high population density yields certain economic benefits. However, high densities require transportation, and transport infrastructure, especially highways, are expensive. In addition, when you travel by car, you impose a cost to the rest of the society.

The IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance’17 brings together the four IEB Reports published during 2017, which have addressed the issues of The Long-Awaited Reform of the Regional Financing System, Effects of Teacher Quality on Student Achievement,The Economics of Crime: State of the Art and Current Challenges, and Do We Need a Wealth Tax?. All of them are topics of obvious relevance and interest nowadays.