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Modeling fiscal sustainability in dynamic macro-panels with heterogeneous effects : evidence from German federal states

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Wolfinger, Julia - 2018

In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822075

Political stability and fiscal policy : time series evidence for the Swiss federal level since 1849

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2009

This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series analysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854439

Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

In the last decades, the majority of OECD countries has experienced a continuous increase in public debt. The European debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re-evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709423

Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability by applying "gsecond generation" panel cointegration...

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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388609

Economic growth and judicial independence : cross country evidence using a new set of indicators

Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2003

facto JI focusing on countries actually experience. Whether JI affects economic growth is tested for a cross section of 57 … countries. While de iure JI does not have an impact on real GDP growth per capita growth, de facto JI positively influences it. …

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally … possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by diminishing regional incentives to implement growth-enhancing policies …. In this paper, we study empirically the effect of intergovernmental transfers on economic growth using the German …

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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary

Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004

JI has a robust and highly significant impact on economic growth. Individual components of both de jure and de facto JI … on economic growth are estimated for their impact on economic growth. Additionally, the effects of other institutional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450509

Economic growth and judicial independence, a dozen years on : cross-country evidence using an updated set of indicators

Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

strongly con-firms previous results that de jure JI is not systematically related to economic growth, but de facto JI is highly … significantly and robustly correlated with growth. In addition, we show that the effect of de facto JI depends on the institutional …

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Fiscal federalism and economic performance new evidence from Switzerland

Burret, Heiko Tobias; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, … - 2018

The link between federalism and economic performance is still ambiguous. Aiming at clarification, we improve on a widespread shortcoming by measuring federalism not just by one variable but by various institutions that constitute it. To this end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26...

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