Experts on political economy analyse the advantages and disadvantages of a decentralised system
Experts on political economy from worldwide universities participate on 13-14 June in the V Workshop on Fiscal Federalism: “The political economy of decentralization”, organised by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), the research centre on Economics of the University of Barcelona. The meeting will analyse several aspects of decentralization from a political economy point of view: tax decentralization, the effects of transfers on local budgets and outcomes, tax competition, accountability, local fiscal adjustment, etc. Researches exposed may be useful to predict the effects (positive and negative) of certain decentralising or recentralising reforms.
Experts on political economy from worldwide universities participate on 13-14 June in the V Workshop on Fiscal Federalism: “The political economy of decentralization”, organised by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), the research centre on Economics of the University of Barcelona. The meeting will analyse several aspects of decentralization from a political economy point of view: tax decentralization, the effects of transfers on local budgets and outcomes, tax competition, accountability, local fiscal adjustment, etc. Researches exposed may be useful to predict the effects (positive and negative) of certain decentralising or recentralising reforms.
One of the speakers is Gerard Padró-i-Miquel, professor of Economics at London School of Economics (LSE) who got his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked together with Daron Acemoglu, author of Why nations fail. He has published some researches on decentralization and the quality of public services and accountability.
Frederico Finan, professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley, also participates in the meeting. He is specialized in political economics, development economics and microeconomics. His most recent researches are focused on questions such as corruption and accountability in decentralised systems or the effects of decentralisation on the quality of public services.
Finally, Eckhard Janeba, professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany) also speaks in the workshop. He has made important contributions to the field of tax competition and fiscal federalism. His most recent works analyse economic policies in a globalised world.