Who we are
DERNET, acronym from Political and Fiscal Decentralization Network, aims to organize conferences and international workshops, as well as other knowledge transfer activities (public reports, dissemination events and working groups). It was born in 2009 with the organization of the “International Conference on the Political and Economic Consequences of Decentralization”, which gave rise to a special issue in the journal “Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy” in 2011. Another conference on municipality fragmentation gave rise to the book: “The Challenge of local government size”, edited by Edward Elgar in 2013. In 2020 we published a special issue in Regional Studies "Decentralization after the Great Recession" as a result of a 2017 conference.
Regional Studies 54(7)
Decentralization after the Great Recession
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 29(2)
The Political and Economic Consequences of Decentralization
The Challenge of Local Government Size
Theoretical Perspectives, International Experience and Policy Reform
Publications
International Conference
The Perils and Advantages of Asymetric Decentralization Arrangements
6 - 2025
Decentralization and the Governances of Extreme Events
5 - 2022
Health Care Expenditure: Looking beyond the demographic aging trends, technology development and economic growth
4 - 2019
Decentralization after the Great Recessions: Fine-tuning or Paradigm Change?
3 - 2017
Challenge of Local Government Size: Theoretical Perspectives, International Experience, and Policy Reform
2 - 2011
Political and Economic Consequences of Decentralization
1 - 2009
Board of Directors
Autonomous University of Madrid
Pompeu Fabra University
University of Santiago de Compostela
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Georgia State University
University of Urbino Carlo Bo
On Thursday, the 29th, the 13th PEARL Seminar began at the Consello Económico de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela. For the first time, this event was organized in Spain.
PEARL is a network of researchers and research institutions that operate in the field of applied public economics and public finance. The main focus of the network is on the regional level of government, which of course includes studying the relationships with local, state, federal (or supra-national) institutions. The idea of PEARL is to gather various kinds of expertise both from different countries (implying different objectives, economic and institutional constraints) and from different fields of economic analysis (econometrics, public finance and public choice, local and regional economics, macroeconomics).
