Contents:
Preface
1. Inter-regional Fiscal Flows: Introduction to the Issues
Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa and Albert Solé Ollé
PART I: COUNTING MONIES: MEASUREMENT AND PRACTICE OF INTER-REGIONAL
FISCAL FLOWS
2. Inter-regional Fiscal Flows: Measurement Tools
Giuseppe C. Ruggeri
3. Inter-regional Fiscal Flows: Interpretation Issues
François Vaillancourt
Comment by Núria Bosch
Comment by Antoni Zabalza
4. Constitutional Reforms, Fiscal Decentralization and Regional
Fiscal Flows in Italy
Maria Flavia Ambrosanio, Massimo Bordignon and Floriana
Cerniglia
5. Measurement and Practice of Fiscal Flows: The Case of
Belgium
Paul Van Rompuy
6. Inter-regional Fiscal Flows: Canada
Giuseppe C. Ruggeri
Comment by François Vaillancourt
7. Inter-regional Fiscal Flows: Methodologies, Results and their
Determinant Factors for Spain
Marta Espasa and Núria Bosch
Comment by Guillem López-Casasnovas
Comment by Ramon Barberán
PART II: BEYOND THE DATA: WHY SOME REGIONS GET MORE MONEY
8. Federalism and Inter-regional Redistribution
Jonathan Rodden
Comment by Carles Boix
9. Decentralization by Politicians: Creation of Grants-financed
Local Jurisdictions
Stuti Khemani
10. The Political Rationale of Regional Financing in Spain
Sandra León
Comment by Santiago Lago
11. The Determinants of Regional Transport Investment Across
Europe
Achim Kemmerling and Andreas Stephan
12. The Determinants of the Regional Allocation of Infrastructure
Investment in Spain
Albert Solé Ollé
Comment by Germà Bel
PART III: IN OR OUT? REGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION AND THE STABILITY OF
FEDERATIONS
13. Federalism, Regional Redistribution and Country Stability
Enrico Spolaore
Comment by Massimo Bordignon
14. The Costs and Benefits of Staying Together: The Catalan Case in
Spain
Elisenda Paluzie
15. The Costs and Benefits of Constitutional Options for Québec and
Canada
François Vaillancourt
16. Staying Together? Scotland and the Rest of the United
Kingdom
David Bell
Index
Edited by Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa and Albert Solé Ollé, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Spain
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