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Author-Name: Raúl García-Gómez
Author-Email: raugar07@ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Name: Jorge Onrubia
Author-Email: jorge.onrubia@ccee.ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name:  Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (UCM), FEDEA and GEN.
Author-Name: A. Jesús Sánchez-Fuentes
Author-Email: ajsanchezfuentes@ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (UCM) and GEN.
Title: Is Public Sector Performance just a matter of money? The case of the Spanish regional governments
Abstract: 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 during the 200s of key public policies constituting the welfare state (as education, health, etc.). Consequently,it 
	increased notably their financing needs but affecting asymmetrically because of the important differences in their fiscal capacity. 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.
Classification-JEL: D24, D60, D61, H40, H50.
Keywords: Public sector efficiency; Public sector performance; Fiscal decentralisation; Spanish Autonomous Communities.
Creation-Date: 2019
Length: 22 pages
Number: 1901
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