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TOBOSO LOPEZ

Prof. Fernando Toboso's publications have mainly focused on public finance issues, on the organization of policy tasks in the Spanish federalism and on methodological and epistemological issues in economic thought. With 3 research sexenios got from the CNEAI, Dr. Toboso has contributed significantly to methodological discussions within institutional economics, particularly focusing on the differences and potential convergences between Old and New Institutional Economics. He has explored how these schools of thought utilize different modes of explanation and core assumptions, specifically contrasting holism with methodological individualism and institutional individualism. He has also examined the role of power and voluntary transactions in analyses built at different strands of institutional economics, and how these differences affect the images of reality theories and models transmit. Finally, a mention deserves also his significant contributions to the distributive consequences of institutional reforms and other public policies, as well as to the study of public finance and federalism in Spain through the lens of institutional economics, with a particular focus on regional fiscal powers and governance structures in Spain. His comparative analyses often involve federal systems like Germany and Switzerland using internationally comparable statistics provided on National Accounts criteria by IMF data bases. By integrating theoretical insights and empirical analysis, his research offers valuable understanding of policy making at multilevel governance systems. In essence, Toboso's work provides a valuable contribution for understanding the methodological differences between schools of economic thought and how these differences affect the images of reality theories and models transmit, as weel as on public finance issue in multilevel policy making scenarios, such as the Spanish one. .