Duplicidades, concurrencias e ineficiencias en el entramado institucional vasco

[ES]El trabajo parte de una clarificación del concepto de duplicidad funcional administrativa distinguiéndolo de las concurrencias y las ineficiencias, y plantea un enfoque selectivo a la hora de afrontarlas. Se analizan los ámbitos críticos para la aparición de duplicidades e ineficiencias y sus posibles causas, para, posteriormente, examinar los instrumentos jurídicos de que disponemos para evitarlas o encauzarlas valorando su efectividad en las políticas de ingreso y de gasto, y finalmente realizar propuestas. El trabajo analiza, asimismo, recientes iniciativas legislativas (ley municipal de Euskadi y ley de administración pública vasca) que prevén cambios significativos en la institucionalización interna y en las relaciones entre Administraciones Públicas, vascas valorando sus novedades e insuficiencias como instrumento para superar las duplicidades.

Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Does PIGS stand for Procyclicality In Government Spending?

The Financial Crisis has hit particularly hard countries like Ireland or Spain. Procyclical fiscal policy has contributed to a boom-bust cycle that undermined fiscal positions and deepened current account deficits during the boom. We set up an RBC model of a small open economy, following Mendoza (1991), and introduce the effect of fiscal policy decisions that change over the cycle. We calibrate the model on data for Ireland, and simulate the effect of different spending policies in response to supply shocks. Procyclical fiscal policy distorts intertemporal allocation decisions. Temporary spending boosts in booms spur investment, and hence the need for external finance, and so generates very volatile cycles in investment and the current account. This economic instability is also harmful for the steady state level of output. Our model is able to replicate the relation between the degree of cyclicality of fiscal policy, and the volatility of consumption, investment and the current account observed in OECD countries.

On a Class of Self-Adjoint Compact Operators in Hilbert Spaces and Their Relations with Their Finite-Range Truncations

This paper investigates a class of self-adjoint compact operators in Hilbert spaces related to their truncated versions with finite-dimensional ranges. The comparisons are established in terms of worst-case norm errors of the composite operators generated from iterated computations. Some boundedness properties of the worst-case norms of the errors in their respective fixed points in which they exist are also given. The iterated sequences are expanded in separable Hilbert spaces through the use of numerable orthonormal bases.