Is public sector performance just a matter of money? The case of the Spanish regional governments

  1. Raúl García-Gómez 1
  2. Jorge Onrubia-Fernández 123
  3. Antonio Jesus Sanchez-Fuentes 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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  2. 2 Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Madrid, Spain
  3. 3 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

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Revue:
Economics and Business Letters

ISSN: 2254-4380

Année de publication: 2019

Titre de la publication: Quality of public finance

Volumen: 8

Número: 2

Pages: 74-84

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17811/EBL.8.2.2019.74-84 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

D'autres publications dans: Economics and Business Letters

Résumé

Efficient use of public resources is clearly a relevant issue to be studied from several points of view. Among others, it accounts for a significant share of the total economy activity and it deals with non-market oriented activities. In Spain, the regional level is particularly relevant due to the progressive decentralization of key public policies constituting the welfare state (as education, health, etc.) and their increasing financing needs, at the same time with important differences in fiscal capacity between them. Moreover, they mostly share (15 of 17) a common financing system in which an efficient use of resources is assumed but not evaluated. Our results show that normally a few of the regions tend to be the top performers, but there no regions performing poorly in every aspect. It is also worth noting that no dramatic changes can be seen in terms both of expenditure and performance during the recent Great Recession.

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R. García-Gómez thanks the hospitality and financing of the Complutense Institute of International Studies. J. Onrubia acknowledges the financial support of Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (before Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), Project ECO2016-76506-C4-3-R. Sánchez-Fuentes acknowledges the financial support of the Regional Government of Andalusia (project SEJ 1512).

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