In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and economic growth/fluctuations. The set-up is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy, in which two political parties can alternate in power. The party in office chooses...

On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a temporary value added tax (VAT) rate reduction. VAT rates were reduced on 1 July 2020 and went back to their previous level on 1 January 2021. We study the price effects of the temporary VAT rate reduction using a web-scraped data set covering...

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

Anlässlich der Bundestagswahl vom 26. September 2021 widmet sich dieses Zeitgespräch den Herausforderungen für die zukünftige Bundesregierung. Das Themenspektrum ist ähnlich vielfältig wie es die Vorstellungen der Parteien sind. Neben den Themen Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung sowie Aus-...