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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773638
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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel - 2020
Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825998
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Testing sustainability of German fiscal policy : evidence for the period 1960 - 2003
Greiner, Alfred; Koeller, Uwe; Semmler, Willi - 2005
In this paper we test whether German public debt has been sustainable by resorting to a test proposed by Bohn (1998). We apply non-parametric and semi-parametric regressions with time depending coefficients. This test shows that the mean of the coefficient relevant for sustainability has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261129
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To react or not?: fiscal policy, volatility and welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Woitek, Ulrich - 2007
implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264070
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Institutionalized bailouts and fiscal policy : the consequences of soft budget constraints
Fink, Alexander; Stratmann, Thomas - 2009
Germany, states' political influence is exogenous because voting weights differ in the upper chamber of the German parliament …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266036
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Social health insurance : the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?
Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005
framework how unsustainable the public finances of France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. are, given their demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261353
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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008
When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264457
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Migration background and educational tracking: Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274804
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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274876