José Sánchez Maldonado

The effects of public infrastructure on the cost structure of Spanish industries

This paper examines the impact of public infrastructures on the performance of Spanish private business at a disaggregated industry level. We use duality theory to recover the productivity effects of public capital by calculating the cost saving effects that are associated to public services. Using a translog cost function we present panel estimates for 14 Spanish industries during the period 1980-1991. Our results strongly suggest that public capital formation can be considered to be an instrument to improve competitiveness by reducing production costs. However, the results also indicate that there is a technologically induced labor saving effect through higher public investment. Furthermore, our estimates suggest that a distinction among industries is of importance because the effects of public infrastructures vary across industries considerably.Abstract. This paper examines the impact of public infrastructures on the performance of Spanish private business at a disaggregated industry level. We use duality theory to recover the productivity effects of public capital by calculating the cost saving effects that are associated to public services. Using a translog cost function we present panel estimates for 14 Spanish industries during the period 1980–1991. Our results strongly suggest that public capital formation can be considered to be an instrument to improve competitiveness by reducing production costs. However, the results also indicate that there is a technologically induced labor saving effect through higher public investment. Furthermore, our estimates suggest that a distinction among industries is of importance because the effects of public infrastructures vary across industries considerably.

Efectos de la implantación del IVA en la distribución sectorial de la carga fiscal en Andalucía

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto la realizacion de una estimacion sobre la recaudacion potencial del Impuesto sobre el Valor Anadido (IVA) en Andalucia, para a partir de la misma, mediante su comparacion con el montante recaudado por aquellas figuras impositivas que han sido sustituidas por el citado Impuesto sobre el Valor Anadido, obtener una distribucion sectorial de las variaciones de la carga fiscal asi como un indicador del incremento de presion fiscal que ha generado el cambio impositivo. En esta linea el trabajo se divide en dos grandes apartados. En el primero nos centramos en el conocimiento de la recaudacion potencial del Impuesto sobre el Valor Anadido en Andalucia, estimandose el mismo a partir de tres modelos alternativos: uno basado en los datos proporcionados por la Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares, un segundo, a partir de las cifras de la Contabilidad Regional y un tercero basado en las tablas Input-Output. En el segundo apartado procedemos al analisis de la forma en que las variaciones de la carga fiscal han incidido en los diversos sectores que conforman la economia andaluza.