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Survey on New Zealanders' attitudes towards and knowledge of macroeconomic policy issues: Documentation of survey methodology and descriptive results

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2016

This paper provides background information and basic descriptive statistics for a representative survey of the New Zealand population conducted on our behalf by Research New Zealand in May 2016. The survey addresses important fiscal and monetary policy issues, including: (1) public preferences...

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Political leaders' socioeconomic background and public deficits: Evidence from OECD countries

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2013

This paper empirically analyses the relationship between political leaders' socioeconomic backgrounds and public budget deficits utilising panel data on 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2008. Building on sociological, as well as economic, research, we argue that the socioeconomic status of...

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities: The case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012

We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...

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Political leaders' socioeconomic background and fiscal performance in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2011

This paper investigates whether the socioeconomic status of the head of government helps explain fiscal performance. Applying sociological research that attributes differences in people's ways of thinking and acting to their relative standing within society, we test whether the social status of...

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Topics in fiscal policy: Evidence from a representative survey of the German population

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian; Uhl, Matthias - 2014

of tax changes on consumption and savings; and 4) the effect of tax changes on labour market activities. …

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The Debt Brake in the Eyes of the German Population

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2014

In response to the recent sovereign debt crisis, the member states of the European Union agreed to enact balanced budget rules in their national legislation. However, little is known about the public's opinion of balanced budget rules. To fill this gap, we conducted a survey among 2,000...

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Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2014

Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings...

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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels … order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous tax revenue shocks. We use panel data from the German states covering … the period from 1992 to 2011, and assess to what extent exogenous changes in tax revenues affect aggregate public …

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