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61 p, 2.0 MB Housing booms and busts and local fiscal policy / Solé Ollé, Albert (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona) ; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
This paper examines how local governments adjust their spending, savings and taxes in response to a temporary revenue windfall generated by a housing boom and how they cope with the inevitable shortfall that appears during the bust. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2017 (XREAP ; 2017/14)  
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73 p, 1.3 MB Does electoral competition curb party favoritism? / Curto Grau, Marta (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona) ; Solé Ollé, Albert (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona) ; Sorribas Navarro, Pilar (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
We study whether incumbents facing uncontested elections channel public spending towards co-partisan officials more than is the case of incumbents that are worried about their chances of re-election. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2017 (XREAP ; 2017/05)  
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48 p, 308.5 KB Inter-regional redistribution through infrastructure investment : tactical or programmatic? / Solé Ollé, Albert (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
In this paper we analyze the effects of both tactical and programmatic politics on the inter-regional allocation of infrastructure investment. We use a panel of data for the Spanish electoral districts during the period 1964-2004 to estimate an equation where investment depends both on economic and political variables. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2009 (XREAP ; 2009-13)  
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34 p, 840.8 KB Tax differentials and agglomeration economies in intraregional firm location / Jofre Monseny, Jordi (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Solé Ollé, Albert (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
This paper analyses empirically how differences in local taxes affect the intraregional location of new manufacturing plants. These effects are examined within the random profit maximization framework while accounting for the presence of different types of agglomeration economies (localization/ urbanization/ Jacobs' economies) at the municipal level. [...]
Este artículo analiza a nivel empírico el papel de los impuestos locales en la localización intra-regional de nuevos establecimientos manufactureros. Estos efectos son analizados en un modelo de maximización aleatoria de beneficios "random profit maximization", teniendo en cuenta la presencia de distintas economías de aglomeración (localización/ urbanización/ Jacobs) a nivel municipal. [...]

Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2007 (XREAP ; 2007-05)  
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41 p, 422.5 KB Does urban sprawl increase the costs of providing local public services? Evidence from Spanish municipalities / Solé Ollé, Albert (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Política i Hisenda Pública) ; Hortas Rico, Miriam (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Política i Hisenda Pública) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
This paper examines the impact of urban sprawl, a phenomenon of particular interest in Spain, which is currently experiencing this process of rapid, low-density urban expansion. Many adverse consequences are attributed to urban sprawl (e. [...]
En el presente trabajo se analiza el impacto de la dispersión urbana, un fenómeno de especial interés en España, donde destaca la rapidez con la que este proceso de desarrollo urbano de baja densidad esta teniendo lugar actualmente. [...]

Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2008 (XREAP ; 2008-10)  

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