Mikel Erkoreka is the Director of the Ituna Center for Basque Economic Agreement and Fiscal Federalism Studies and Senior Lecturer of Public Policy and Economic History at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His main research fields are public finances, fiscal federalism and economic history.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: State Intervention and the Development of Fiscal Equalisation Systems in Federal Countries: An Historical IntroductionMikel ErkorekaPart 1Theoretical Framework of Fiscal Equalisation1 The Economics of Fiscal EqualisationAndoni Montes-Nebreda2 Paradigms of Subnational Government Participation in Equalisation Mechanisms: A Comparative and Constitutional OutlookFrancisco Javier Romero-Caro and Alice ValdesaliciPart 2Fiscal Federalism and Equalisation in Practice: Case Studies3 Redistribution and Equalisation in Fiscal Federalism and the Structure of Territorial Imbalances in ArgentinaMiguel Ángel Asensio, Florencia Martino and Pamela Fadul4 From Full to Partial Equalisation: The Case of Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation in AustraliaTracy B. Fenwick and Miranda Stewart5 The Political Economy of Federal Equalisation Policy in CanadaOlivier Jacques, Daniel Béland and André Lecours6 The Political Economy of Federal Grants: Ethiopia’s ExperienceBizuneh Yimenu7 Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations during the covid 19 Pandemic in Germany: Was the New Fiscal Equalisation Scheme able to Hamper Financial Dislocations?Gisela Färber8 Fiscal Federalism and Territorial Inequalities: India’s ExperienceGovind Bhattacharjee9 Confronting Territorial Inequality among South African Municipalities: Challenges to the Fiscal Equalisation SystemJaap de Visser, Tinashe Chigwata and Nico Steytler10 Inter-regional Inequalities and Fiscal Equalisation in SpainMario Kölling and Ana Herrero-Alcalde11 The Swiss System of Fiscal Equalisation – Balancing Cantonal Tax Autonomy and Federal SolidarityEva Maria Belser and Mikel ErkorekaIndex