Konferenzbeitrag

Local government debt: an application to the Spanish case

For the last years, Europe has been subject to fiscal austerity in order to satisfy the Maastrich criteria. In this way, Spanish municipalities have been affected by new regulations and local government structure has changed. This paper is focused on the main factors that explain local government debt. In particular, budgetary information of a group of Spanish municipalities is used (1990-2000). Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data are presented. Key words:Fiscal Federalism, Local Government, debt, decentralization.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: 44th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regions and Fiscal Federalism", 25th - 29th August 2004, Porto, Portugal

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Fiscal Federalism
Local Government
debt
decentralization

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Cantarero, David
Pascual, Marta
Fernandez, Roberto
García-Valiñas, María A.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
(where)
Louvain-la-Neuve
(when)
2004

Handle
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Object type

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Associated

  • Cantarero, David
  • Pascual, Marta
  • Fernandez, Roberto
  • García-Valiñas, María A.
  • European Regional Science Association (ERSA)

Time of origin

  • 2004

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