Monitoring the Spanish economy from a regional perspective: main elements of analysis

Concha Artola, María Gil, Javier Pérez, Alberto Urtasun, Alejandro Fiorito and Diego Vila
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Concha Artola: Banco de España
María Gil: Banco de España
Alejandro Fiorito: Johns Hopkins University
Diego Vila: University of Amsterdam

No 1809, Occasional Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: In highly decentralized countries the subnational dimension of economic developments acquires particular relevance, given the existence of potential spillover effects across jurisdictions or the existence of asymmetric impacts of national-wide macroeconomic shocks. At the same time, though, the analysis of sub-national macroeconomic and public finance short-term developments tend to be restricted in many countries due to data limitations. Against this backdrop, the aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the available data for monitoring macroeconomic and public finance developments at the regional level in Spain, and to present some examples of its practical use in real time. After a thoroughly review of the publicly available information, we identify two key informational gaps in this area of conjunctural analysis, namely: (i) the lack of homogeneous and official quarterly measures of aggregate regional economic activity (in particular, real GDP), and (ii) the limited sample size of time series pertaining to government budgetary developments at the regional level.

Keywords: regional economics; regional data; macroeconomic forecasting; subnational public finances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 E32 H72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2018-12
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