The Barcelona Economics Institute publishes its Decalogue of measures to ensure a fairer, simpler and more efficient tax collection system
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
• Fifty tax system experts, including professionals working in public administration and academics from around Spain, have given their backing to the document • The transition should be made gradually, but the long-term benefits for the economy and for society as a whole will be greater than the costs incurred • The report also includes…
The first issue of the IEB report evaluates the impact of a fiscal devaluation in Spain
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
The positive effects on short-term economic growth of a fiscal devaluation mean that various analysts and institutions recommend adopting this policy to help reactivate an economy. Indeed, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently recommended that the Spanish government do just that, i.e., increase VAT and reduce employers’ social security contributions. In its IEB Report…
The new format of the IEB Report seeks to maintain a much stronger link with current affairs
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
The IEB Report will now be published four times a year as a monographic study, abandoning its earlier format comprising different studies on various topics. This increase in frequency means the analyses published on a broad range of economics can maintain a much closer link with current affairs. Pluralism and academic rigour are the…
An IEB workshop promotes the analysis of the effects of funding on higher education
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Professor Lorraine Dearden (director of Education Sector Institute for Fiscal Studies and Professor of Economics and Social Statistics Institute of Education, University of London) defends that if the incomes of grants or loans are increased, the number of public university students will remain stable despite the increase in prices. Dearden took part at the…
Mauro Mediavilla (IEB-Universitat de Valencia) awarded prize for his thesis on the impact of scholarships on school success
Friday, 12 July 2013
The researcher Mauro Mediavilla (IEB-University of Valencia) has won the José Luís Moreno Becerra Prize 2013 for his doctoral thesis, which shows the relationship between scholarships and study grants and the academic success rate in post-compulsory secondary schooling in Spain. The Moreno Becerra Prize is awarded every two years by the Asociación de Economía…
Pros and cons of decentralization (V Workshop on Fiscal Federalism)
Monday, 1 July 2013
Is having a decentralized system beneficial to a country’s economy? Does the situation change during times of crisis? Can one country be singled out as being a model of decentralization? These are some of the questions addressed in this interview with the economists Frederico Finan (University of California – Berkeley) and Eckhard Janeba (University of…
