Ana Herrero-Alcalde
Biographic Data
| ID | 4404802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Herrero-Alcalde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrero-Alcalde |
| SIGNATURE | HERRERO-ALCALDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9594-1967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding citizens’ knowledge and preferences for fiscal equalization in decentralized countries
The registered version of this article, first published in Regional & Federal Studies, is available online at the publisher's website: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2551599
Does Decentralization Affect the Size of Public Intervention? Evidence from Anti-Covid Public Policies
Although the impact of decentralization on public sector size has been extensively studied, little attention has been given to how this relationship unfolds during extreme events. Does decentralization amplify or constrain government intervention in times of crisis? This article addresses this gap by examining how different dimensions of decentralization influenced the size of fiscal measures adopted by thirty-one European countries in response t…
Fiscal rules to the test: The impact of the Spanish expenditure rule
Despite the large spread of fiscal rules around the world, there is still not enough evidence of their effectiveness in ensuring fiscal sustainability. Furthermore, there is little evidence of the impact of expenditure rules in countries’ fiscal performance. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Spanish expenditure rule that has been in force since 2012 in controlling the growth of public expenditure. We use a synthetic control methodolog…
Extreme events and the resilience of decentralised governance
Extreme events, such as economic crises, natural disasters or military conflicts, can affect the balance between centralisation and decentralisation forces across countries and transform, temporarily or more permanently, the design of multilevel governance. Using a panel of 91 developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2018, and another for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries between 1995 and 2018, we exam…
Welfare benefits in highly decentralized fiscal systems: Evidence on interregional mimicking
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: The case of Spain
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: the case of Spain. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of regional social spending using a dataset of the 17 regional governments in Spain. With both a fixed-effects static and a dynamic model, results suggest that demography, inputs, institutional design and resources are critical in determining the size of …
The Challenge of Designing Capital Equalization Transfers: An Application to Spanish Regions
This article analyzes the main design issues of capital transfers with an equalization objective within a system of sub-national finance. Although there is a vast literature and ample policy practice with the design of recurrent equalization grants, there is a dearth in the fiscal federalism literature at both the theoretical design and actual practice levels on how to use capital transfers with an interregional equalization objective. The main a…
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: The case of Spain
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: the case of Spain. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of regional social spending using a dataset of the 17 regional governments in Spain. With both a fixed-effects static and a dynamic model, results suggest that demography, inputs, institutional design and resources are critical in determining the size of …
Extreme events and the resilience of decentralised governance
Extreme events, such as economic crises, natural disasters or military conflicts, can affect the balance between centralisation and decentralisation forces across countries and transform, temporarily or more permanently, the design of multilevel governance. Using a panel of 91 developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2018, and another for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries between 1995 and 2018, we exam…
The Challenge of Designing Capital Equalization Transfers: An Application to Spanish Regions
This article analyzes the main design issues of capital transfers with an equalization objective within a system of sub-national finance. Although there is a vast literature and ample policy practice with the design of recurrent equalization grants, there is a dearth in the fiscal federalism literature at both the theoretical design and actual practice levels on how to use capital transfers with an interregional equalization objective. The main a…
Welfare benefits in highly decentralized fiscal systems: Evidence on interregional mimicking
The Challenge of Designing Capital Equalization Transfers: An Application to Spanish Regions
This article analyzes the main design issues of capital transfers with an equalization objective within a system of sub-national finance. Although there is a vast literature and ample policy practice with the design of recurrent equalization grants, there is a dearth in the fiscal federalism literature at both the theoretical design and actual practice levels on how to use capital transfers with an interregional equalization objective. The main a…
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: The case of Spain
Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: the case of Spain. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of regional social spending using a dataset of the 17 regional governments in Spain. With both a fixed-effects static and a dynamic model, results suggest that demography, inputs, institutional design and resources are critical in determining the size of …
Welfare benefits in highly decentralized fiscal systems: Evidence on interregional mimicking
Extreme events and the resilience of decentralised governance
Extreme events, such as economic crises, natural disasters or military conflicts, can affect the balance between centralisation and decentralisation forces across countries and transform, temporarily or more permanently, the design of multilevel governance. Using a panel of 91 developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2018, and another for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries between 1995 and 2018, we exam…
Fiscal rules to the test: The impact of the Spanish expenditure rule
Despite the large spread of fiscal rules around the world, there is still not enough evidence of their effectiveness in ensuring fiscal sustainability. Furthermore, there is little evidence of the impact of expenditure rules in countries’ fiscal performance. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Spanish expenditure rule that has been in force since 2012 in controlling the growth of public expenditure. We use a synthetic control methodolog…
Understanding citizens’ knowledge and preferences for fiscal equalization in decentralized countries
The registered version of this article, first published in Regional & Federal Studies, is available online at the publisher's website: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2551599
Does Decentralization Affect the Size of Public Intervention? Evidence from Anti-Covid Public Policies
Although the impact of decentralization on public sector size has been extensively studied, little attention has been given to how this relationship unfolds during extreme events. Does decentralization amplify or constrain government intervention in times of crisis? This article addresses this gap by examining how different dimensions of decentralization influenced the size of fiscal measures adopted by thirty-one European countries in response t…
Economics (6 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (6 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Decentralization (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (2 works)