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.

The IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance ’16 brings together the four IEB Reports published during 2016, which have addressed the issues of Economic considerations of the refugee crisis in Europe, How Can We Finance our Pensions?, Taxation, Multinationals and Foreign Direct Investment and Inequality: Measurement and Policies. All of them are topics of obvious relevance and interest nowadays.

The IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance ’15 brings together the three IEB Reports published during 2015, which have addressed the issues of Corruption: magnitude, causes and consequences, Tax harmonisation in the European Union and An analysis of scal federalism in the EU. However, its central theme is Supranational policies to overcome the crisis. All of them are topics of obvious relevance and interest nowadays.

The IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance ’14 brings together the three IEB Reports published during 2014, which have addressed the issues of scal balances, environmental taxation and tax fraud. However, its central theme is the debate on the future of Spain’s regional nancing system, a subject of obvious relevance and interest in our country today.

The IEB Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance’13 examines four subjects: from the eld of Fiscal Federalism, the focus is on local government reform, and from the eld of Public Finance, we turn our attention to fiscal devaluation, tax reform and pension reform.

As with the three previous editions (2009, 2010 and 2011), the economic crisis has shaped the content of the IEB’s Report on Fiscal Federalism’12. Since the beginning of the economic downturn, the budgetary situation of the various government levels (and, in particular, of the sub-central level) has continued to deteriorate. In the early years, this was the result of the strong impact caused by the decrease in revenue, the adoption of scal stimulus policies and, ultimately, a lack of political will to implement the budgetary adjustment required. In Spain, the scal consolidation effort has been more evident recently (both at the central and sub-central levels of government) but its effectiveness has been limited.