The new paradigm in the field of International Cooperation is that institutions are the fundamental cause of long-run economic development. However, the lack of both a clear consensus on which are the specific institutions that promote development, and a theory that integrates economic,...

One of the recurring problems faced by fiscal policy in Argentina is the difficulty of achieving a balanced path of long-term fiscal performance. The incentives and pressures generated in periods of public spending growth to accelerate rapidly, surpassing the growth rate of the economy. On the...

In this work we present a model basis on Bernheim-Whinston model, which considers that political decisions are the result of various interactions between groups with direct influence (GDI) on political decision making. According to our approach, this model stokes up government role which...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto que la entrada de inmigrantes tendrá sobre las cuentas de las Administraciones Públicas andaluzas y sobre la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de las actuales políticas de gasto público en Andalucía. Para ello, realizamos diferentes simulaciones...

Most western countries started to reform their public management in the eighties. These reform processes are known as New Public Management (NPM). Although, the depth and scope of the changes are not the same in all countries, they show common characteristics. This paper reviews such...

This paper has the main target of clarifying the costs of a fiduciary monetary system, in the economic transition process. Also the advantages of such a financial system are studied, as based upon a non-nominative silver current and guarantor of development. This is also an attempting to settle...

Book review of Paksoy, H. B. (2001): "Identities: How Governed, Who Pays?", Carrie Books.

This article shows that the consensus about the importance of institutions for economic growth is derived from Weber and North, for whom legal institutions make it possible to predict the State’s and economic agent’s actions. For Weber, law based on formal rationality contributed to the...

This paper analyses current developments in public intervention in local economies. The changing Fordist/Keynesian paradigm takes aside the dominance and hierarchy of public action and gives way to a new governance model where the public administration is one more agent among several. We take...