Das günstige Steueraufkommen am aktuellen Rand hat den Arbeitskreis »Steuerschätzungen« bei seiner 141. Sitzung Ende Oktober 2012 dazu veranlasst, die Schätzung für das Jahr 2012 nach oben zu korrigieren. Für das laufende Jahr wird nunmehr mit einem Steueraufkommen in Höhe von 602,4 Mrd....

Vortrag von Prof. Vito Tanzi former Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF and a former Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government

This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...

Emerging countries exhibit volatile fiscal policies and frequent sovereign debt crises, that significantly diminish the well-being of their citizens. International advisors typically suggest developed-world solutions as a remedy. We argue that the root of the problem lies in the institutional...

An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...

Verminderte Steuereinnahmen und die defizitäre Lage der öffentlichen Haushalte haben eine Diskussion über Steuererhöhungen ausgelöst. Dass die vorgesehenen Maßnahmen ökonomisch sinnvoll und in der aktuellen Wirtschaftslage angemessen sind, bezweifelt Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest, Universität...

We study the role of firms' political influence on the effectiveness of government spending using ARRA as a laboratory. Through an IV approach, we show that a 10 percentage points increase in the share of politically connected spending lowers the job creation effect of stimulus by 33 percent at...