Outsourcing and Public Expenditure: An Aggregate Perspective with Regional Data

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Economic effects of recent experiences of federalism: Analysis of the regionalization process in Spain

“…Thus, consistent with these arguments, it is usual for the literature to consider the Spanish institutional and territorial framework as fixed, constructing the economic analysis (sometimes of very specific aspects) based on these premises. For example, following this logic it is possible to find analyses of the effect of outsourcing on public expenditure from a regional perspective (Delgado‐Téllez et al, 2021), the evolution and determinants of Spanish regional public debt (Delgado‐Téllez & Pérez, 2020) or the fiscal imbalances at the regional level (Molina‐Parra & Martínez‐López, 2018). Of course, other factors such as interactions between central and regional governments can be taken into account.…”