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This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom …
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Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...
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This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their...
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This study aims at contributing to the ongoing debates on the bracket creep, whether Germany needs an integration of … burdens. On the other hand, Germany has continuously flattened the personal income tax rates in the context of a series of tax …
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extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
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default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …
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shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy …
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Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...
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newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …
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