Das Gutachten untersucht die fiskalischen Auswirkungen der (Wieder-)Einführung einer Vermögensteuer auf den Haushalt des Bundeslandes Hessen. Da die Steuerreformen der rot-grünen Bundesregierung von 1998 bis 2005 eine beträchtliche strukturelle Einnahmenlücke aufgerissen haben, die durch...

We study the consequences of non-neutrality of government debt for macroeconomic stabilization policy in an environment where prices are sticky. Assuming transaction services of government bonds, Ricardian equivalence fails because public debt has a negative impact on its marginal rate of return...

This paper examines equilibrium determination under different monetary policy regimes when the government might default on its debt. We apply a cash-in-advance model where the government does not have access to non-distortionary taxation and does not account for initial outstanding debt when it...

This paper examines the pricing of public debt in a quantitative macroeconomic model with government default risk. Default may occur due to a fiscal policy that does not preclude a Ponzi game. When a build-up of public debt makes this outcome inevitable, households stop lending such that the...

Der Export der deutschen Schuldenbremse oder ähnlicher Fiskalregeln in die Krisen geschüttelten Euroraum-Staaten halten viele derzeit für einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Lösung der Euro-Krise. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt dagegen, dass solche Hoffnungen angesichts der zahlreichen...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat sich im Verlauf des vergangenen Jahres 2010 deutlich erholt. Sowohl von der Auslands- als auch der Inlandsnachfrage kamen kräftige Impulse. Im Jahresdurchschnitt stieg das Bruttoinlandsprodukt um 3,7 %, im Jahresverlauf sogar um 4,2 %. Mit einer Fortsetzung dieser...

Many observers consider the German 'debt brake' beyond criticism. In the current crisis, many European countries have difficulties refinancing their budgets, while the German treasury's funding conditions are most favourable. The 'fiscal compact's' call for the introduction of German-style 'debt...

A fiscal shock due to a shift in taxes or in government spending will, at some point in time, constrain the future path of taxes and spending, since the government's intertemporal budget constraint will eventually have to be met. This simple fact is surprisingly overlooked in analyses of the...

Following the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe this spring and subsequent measures to contain the pandemic, the European Commission drastically revised its economic and fiscal forecasts. The Summer 2020 Economic Forecast projects that the euro area economy will contract by 8.7% in 2020. The...

A fiscal shock due to a shift in taxes or in government spending will, at some point in time, constrain the future path of taxes and spending, since the government’s intertemporal budget constraint will eventually have to be met. This simple fact is surprisingly overlooked in analyses of the...