Teresa Garcia-Milà
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005-Barcelona
- Anna Cano
- acano@crei.cat
- Phone: (+34) 93 542 2668
- Macroeconomics, Public Economics and Regional Economics

Working Papers
revised April 2011
Revised May 2002
Publications
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International Tax and Public Finance, 25 (4), 2018, 1071-1091
The Economic Journal, 120 (543), 2010, 105-130
Tobin meets Oates: Solidarity and the Optimal Fiscal Federal Structure (with X. Calsamiglia and T. McGuire)
International Tax and Public Finance, 20 (3), 2013, 450-473
Supply Side Interventions and Redistribution (with A. Marcet and E. Ventura)
Economic Journal, 120 (543), 2010, 105-130
Fiscal Decentralization in Spain: An Asymmetric Transition to Democracy
In Subsidiarity and Solidarity: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Maintaining an Effective State in Diverse Countries, Richard Bird and Robert Ebel editors, Edward Elgar, 2007, 208-223
Fiscal Federalism and Regional Integration: Lessons from Spain
In Federalismo e Integraçao Economica Regional. Desafios para o Mercosul, The Forum of Federations, 2004, 125-151
Solidarity and Fiscal Decentralization (with T. McGuire)
Proceedings – 96th Annual Conference on Taxation, Chicago, Illinois, November 13-15, 2003. Washington DC: National Tax Association, 2004, 152-156
Tax Incentives and the City (with T. McGuire)
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack editors, 1, 2002, 95-132
Do Interregional Transfers Improve the Economic Performance of Poor Regions? The Case of Spain (with T. McGuire)
International Tax and Public Finance, 8 (3), 2001, 281-295
A Note on the Shift to a Sevices-based Economy and the Consequences for Regional Growth (with T. McGuire)
Journal of Regional Science, 38 (2), 1998, 353-363
The Effect of Public Capital in State-Level Production Functions Reconsidered (with T. McGuire and R. Porter)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 78 (1), 1996, 177-180
Industrial Mix as a Factor in the Growth and Variability of States’ Economies (with T. McGuire)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 23 (6), 1993, 731-748
The Contribution of Publicly Provided Inputs to States’ Economies (with T. McGuire)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 22 (2), 1992, 229-241
The Effects of Central Government Financing on Regional Government Expenditures in Spain (with T. McGuire)
In Public Finance at Several Levels of Government, Rémy Prud’homme editor, Foundation of Public Finance, The Hague-Koenigstein, 1991, 223-234
Un modelo dinámico con capital público y su estimación por simulación
Investigaciones Económicas, 14 (3), 1990, 369-383
Some Empirical Evidence on Government Purchase Multipliers
Published in Economic Letters, 31 (4), 1989, 375-380
Short Bio and Picture
Teresa Garcia-Milà earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1987. She is Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona GSE, and Research Associate at CREI. She is currently Director of the Barcelona GSE, and has been Vice-rector of Scientific Policy, Chair of the Department of Economics and Business and Dean of the Undergraduate Studies in Economics at UPF. She has served as President of the Spanish Economic Association (2014). Prior to joining the UPF, Prof. Garcia-Milà has held academic positions at SUNY at Stony Brook and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research has focused in studying the impact of public investment on economic growth, and in the analysis of how different tax structures and fiscal federalism models influence economic growth, the distribution of resources and the economic wellbeing.
Selected Publications
- “Strength in Diversity? Fiscal Federalism among the Fifty US States, (with T. McGuire and W. Oates), International Tax and Public Finance, 25 (4), 2018, 1071-1091.
- “Tobin meets Oates: Solidarity and the Optimal Fiscal Federal Structure” (with X. Calsamiglia and T. McGuire), International Tax and Public Finance, 20 (3), 2013, 450-473.
- “Supply Side Interventions and Redistribution”, (with A. Marcet and E. Ventura), Economic Journal, 120 (543), 2010, 105-130.
- “A Note on the Shift to a Service-based Economy and the Consequences for Regional Growth”, (with T. McGuire), Journal of Regional Science, 38 (2), 1998, 353-363.
- “The Contribution of Publicly Provided Inputs to States’ Economies”, (with T. McGuire), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 22 (2), 1992, 229-241.
Other Writings
Dotació i gestió d’infraestructures de transport (with G. Biel)
In Economia catalana: reptes de futur, BBVA and Generalitat de Catalunya Eds., 295-319, 2007
Regional Integration and Public Investment in Spain (with R. Marimon)
Economic Growth and Change, John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru editors, Edward Elgar, Northampton 1999
Crecimiento de las regiones españolas: estructura sectorial, dinámica regional y distribución de rentas (with R. Marimon)
Papeles de economía española, 80, 1999, 29-48
Teorías de las fluctuaciones económicas
In Invitación a la teoría económica, R. Marimon and X. Calsamiglia eds. Ariel, October 1992, 259-273