Research

Work in progress

• Labor insecurity and preferences for redistribution (with Clàudia Serra-Sala)

• Decentralized Redistribution: The Impact of Tax Autonomy on inequality (with Dirk Foremny and Clàudia Serra-Sala)

• Living at the Peak: Health and Public Finance during the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Dirk Foremny and Judit Vall Castelló)

• Female representation and gender violence (with Zelda Brutti)

• Coalitions and turnout (with Albert Falcó-Gimeno)

• Social capital,  corruption and accountability (with Jordi Muñoz)

Publications

• "Landfill tax and recycling" (with Jordi Jofre-Monseny), accepted at Fiscal Studies 2024.

• “Income Insecurity and Mental Health in Pandemic Times” (with Dirk Foremny & Judit Vall), Economics and Human Biology 53, 2024.

• Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions, Comparative Political Studies, 25(7), 2022 (with Carlos Sanz and Albert Solé-Ollé).

• “Does electoral competition curb party favoritism?”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4), 378-407, 2018 (with Marta Curto-Grau & Albert Solé-Ollé).

• “Trust no more? On the lasting effects of corruption scandals”, European Journal of Political Economy, 55, 185-203, 2018 (with Albert Solé-Ollé).

• “Immigration and local spending in social services: Evidence from a massive immigration wave”, International Tax and Public Finance, 23, 1004-1029, 2016 (with Jordi Jofre-Monseny & Javier Vázquez-Grenno)

• “Corruption scandals, voter information, and accountability”, European Journal of Political Economy, 28, 469-484, 2012 (with Elena Costas-Pérez & Albert Solé-Ollé).

• “The dynamic adjustment of local government budgets: does Spain behave differently?”, Applied Economics, 44(25), 3203-3213, 2012 (with Albert Solé-Ollé).

• “Bailouts in a fiscal federal system: Evidence from Spain”, European Journal of Political Economy, 27, 154-170, 2011.

• "The effects of partisan alignment on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. Differences-in-differences estimates for Spain", Journal of Public Economics, 92 (12), 2302-2319, 2008.

• “El diseño de las cestas impositivas desde una perspectiva financiera”, Investigaciones Regionales, 7, 69-89, 2005 (with Alejandro Esteller & Jorge Navas).

• “The redistributive, stabilising and insurance effects at the territorial level of “federal” government budget”, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 21, 597- 613, 2003 (with Núria Bosch & Marta Espasa).

• “La capacidad redistributiva y estabilizadora del presupuesto del gobierno central español”, Hacienda Pública Española / Revista de Economía Pública, 160, 47-76, 2002 (with Núria Bosch & Marta Espasa). 

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