At a time with growing fears of excessive government debt and of overburdened future generations Swiss fiscal policy seems to be the virtuous role model to be followed. Whereas almost everywhere else government debt has been increasing dramatically after the global economic and financial crisis...

Der bundesdeutsche Länderfinanzausgleich bedarf der Reform, weil seine rechtlichen Grundlagen, das Maßstäbegesetz und das Finanzausgleichgesetz, bis 2019 befristet sind. Zudem haben mit Bayern und Hessen zwei Geberländer Verfassungsklage gegen die jetzigen Regelungen eingereicht. Die immer...

The study assesses the fiscal effects of (re-)introducing the general wealth tax for the public budget of the German federal state Hessen. In order to increase public spending in crucial areas such as education, research, child care and infrastructure, a structural increase in tex revenue is...

The debt brake recently introduced into the German constitution forces the German federal states (Länder) to run structurally balanced budgets form 2020 onwards. The study is preoccupied with the potential effects of the debt brakes on the budget of the federal state of Hessen in the transition...

The study develops a budget consolidation strategy for Austria that does not endanger the fragile recovery while at the same time promoting distrbutional justice. As a first step a literature review on the macroeconomic effects of discreationary fiscal policy is given. As a second step two...

The bank-based financial systems of Germany and Japan were considered most conducive to growth in the 1980s. After the Japanese stagnation of the 1990s and the most recent slump in Germany, the conviction that the market-based Anglo-American financial systems are a prerequisite for a dynamic...

This study analyses the longer term implications of 'financialisation' in the US and in Germany from a macroeconomic perspective. In the process of 'financialisation' the importance of the financial sector of an economy increases relative to that of the non-financial sector. While discussing...

Post-Keynesian demand driven distribution and growth models, based on the notion of distribution conflict between different groups, have been critical regarding the macroeconomic effects of 'financialisation'. In the present paper, firstly, we attempt to identify theoretically and empirically...