Cantarero, David; Perez, Patricio - In: Portuguese Economic Journal 11 (2012) 3, pp. 211-237
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the size of regional governments in Spain, by controlling for economies of scale, interregional heterogeneity and institutional framework. We study it over 1985 to 2004 using a panel dataset of seventeen spanish...