As part of a process of democratization, many countries spanning Europe, Latin Amertica, Africa, and Asia are reorganizing their governments by devolving fiscal responsibility and authority to newly empowered regional and local governments. Although decentralization in each country proceeds...

Recent research suggests that income redistribution preferences vary across identity groups. We employ a new pattern recognition technology to uncover what these groups are. Using data from the General Social Survey, we present a new stylized fact that preferences for governmental provision of...

Este trabajo aplica la norma de evolución HEAVE, desarrollada en el artículo previo del autor Dynamic Horizontal and Vertical Equity in Intergovernmental Transfers http://iei.uv.es:80/index.php?opcion=publicaciones, al sistema español de financiación autonómica y compara los resultados con...

This paper shows that actual systems of intergovernmental transfers are incompletely specified when viewed as mechanisms that operate over time, and that the norms of evolution most frequently used do not preserve the distributive properties they have at their initial position. We argue that...