Regional Financing in Germany and Spain: Comparative Reform Perspectives
Published on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | Updated on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Document number 16/04
Regional Financing in Germany and Spain: Comparative Reform Perspectives
Summary
Reforms of regional financing are due soon or even overdue in Spain and in Germany. This research paper compares the systems of regional financing in both countries, describes their financial outcomes, benchmarks them against criteria taken from the modern theory of fiscal federalism and extracts some lessons for reform from this endeavour.
Topics
- Topic Tags
- Regional Analysis Spain
- Macroeconomic Analysis
Tags
- Tags
- Regional financing
Authors
Angel De la Fuente
Fedea and CSIC - External partner
Christian Kastrop
Michael Thöne