This article investigates the degree of persistence of different inflation rates for the Spanish economy using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the aggregate as well as for the regions, provinces and eight groups of goods and services, in addition to the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the...

The current economic crisis has led several rich countries to experience severe fiscal deficits. Among other factors responsible for the situation, corruption is considered harmful to public finances and appears closely related to fiscal deficits. This paper opens a new avenue in addressing the...

The influence of government size on per capita GDP growth has attracted much interest from scholars during the past two decades. However, despite all the work conducted, there is no consensus among researchers on the importance of government size in affecting economic growth. Some authors find...

Cross-country differences in output persistence are well documented in the literature. Further, Fatás (2000) finds a strong positive correlation between the persistence of fluctuations and long-term average growth rates for a sample that includes the G7 countries and eight additional OECD...

This work boasts a double objective: not only does it attempt to offer a complete panorama of the matching process in Andalusian public employment agencies (Servicio Andaluz de Empleo, SAE) for both sides of the job market, based on duration analysis, but also to assess the degree to which the...

This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in search and matching theories applied to labour economics, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented...