The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR)...

Este artículo identifica el tipo de financiación que el nuevo Estatuto de autonomía de Cataluña implica. Se argumenta que, en materia de financiación autonómica, el Estatuto de Cataluña da cobertura a una pluralidad de modelos con características distintas en lo que a sus propiedades de...

Como parte de un trabajo más extenso sobre el gasto público nacional en la región Caribe y el ordenamiento territorial en el período 1995-20071, en este documento se analizan las asignaciones del presupuesto general de la nación para la inversión regionalizable, entre los años 1995-2007...

The study focuses on the tax system in its broadest dimension, including not only the set of taxes in force in a specific territory and time, but also the criteria and mechanisms applied for its creation and regulation as well as for its Administration: Who collects and supervises them and how...

Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...

Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...

Even though fiscal decentralization in Spain has advanced in several fronts over the last three decades, important issues remain and the decentralization of tax capacity to regions is among the most important unfinished items. This review paper focuses on what has gone wrong and the causes for...

The paper explores the feasibility of a new agreement on the Fiscal and Financial Federal Coordination System in Argentina and seeks to corroborate the hypothesis that this would not be feasible and sustainable in the long run without a Reform of the Federal Tax System, in particular, a reform...