González Alegre, Juan2017-02-142017-02-142013González Alegre, J. (2013). Fiscal Federalism and the impact of Intergovernmental Grants: the European Regional policy in Spain. En Estado del bienestar : sostenibilidad y reformas. XX Encuentro Economía Pública (1-47), Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla.978-84-695-6945-0http://hdl.handle.net/11441/54078We su spect that the efficiency of intergovernmental grants is related to the level of fiscal autonomy of the subsidized government. In this paper we construct and estimate a pane l data model capturing the role of fiscal federa lism on the effectiveness of EU Structural Actions in enhancing public exp enditure in selected policy areas . We use data from the seventeen Spanish regions for the period 1993 - 2007. Results unambiguously support the hypothesis that the effectiveness of the ERDF decreases with larger fiscal autonom y . T he role of the European Social Fund is still under analysis. T h ese results c ould reflect the fact that fiscal decentralization in Spain has been focused to larger taxation autonomy without affecting regional income redistributionapplication/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Fiscal FederalismIntergovernmental GrantsRegional Policyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess