Die vorliegende Studie der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft wirft einen ungeschminkten Blick auf die Nachhaltigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen in den zwölf Gründungsstaaten der Eurozone (EURO12-Staaten). Sie ermittelt die tatsächliche Staatsverschuldung der Länder. Das daraus resultierende Ranking,...

Auch wenn die europäischen Finanzen und die Haushaltslage der EU-Mitgliedstaaten nicht mehr das beherrschende Thema in der medialen Berichterstattung darstellen, darf dies nicht dazu verleiten anzunehmen, dass die Probleme der öffentlichen Finanzen in der Europäischen Union gelöst seien. Die...

The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending — the Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus, we investigate whether the spending package...

How much did fiscal policy contribute to euro area real GDP growth during the Great Recession? We estimate that discretionary fiscal measures have increased annualized quarterly real GDP growth during the crisis by up to 1.6 percentage points. We obtain our result by using an extended version of...

We investigate the impact of fiscal stimuli at different levels of the government debt-to-GDP-ratio for a sample of 17 European countries from 1970 to 2010. This is implemented in an interacted panel VAR framework in which all coefficient parameters are allowed to change continuously with the...

The paper presents a model-based assessment of fiscal multipliers operating in the euro area during the period 2011-2014. The assessment is conditional on two distinct reactions of the sovereign risk premium (either responding endogenously to fiscal shocks or being an exogenous process) and two...