Should fiscal equalisation and regional policy goals and tools be disentangled?

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2025

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López-Laborda, J., Montes-Nebreda, A., & Onrubia, J. (2025). Should fiscal equalisation and regional policy goals and tools be disentangled? Regional Studies, 59(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2371146

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We exploit the mixture of policy goals and instruments of the Spanish Regional Funding System (RFS) to test whether equalisation transfers have an impact on regional convergence. Using FE and 2SLS-IV models and data for 15 regions for the 2002-2018 period, we find that both fiscal equalisation and regional transfers show a significant concave convergence promoting effect, which is larger for regional transfers. However, excess/deficit funding caused by overlapping tools and objectives in the RFS does not have a significant relationship with regional convergence. These results are in line with the Tinbergen rule, since it is more cost-effective to promote regional convergence through regional policy funds.

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