The excess procyclicality of fiscal policy is commonly viewed as a central malaise in emerging economies. We document that procyclicality is more pervasive in countries with higher sovereign risk and provide a model of optimal fiscal policy with nominal rigidities and endogenous sovereign...

The German Federal Constitutional Court has ordered a revision of public budgets following the correct interpretation of the German debt brake. The debt brake is an obstacle to necessary public investment needed for ecological transformation of areas such as housing construction and education....

Multiple crises and ecological transformation are driving an intense debate about government credit financing and its restriction by the constitutional debt brake. The Board of Academic Advisors at the BMWK has presented a proposal on how more flexibility would be possible without undermining...

In der Märzausgabe 2023 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz mit dem Titel „Schuldentragfähigkeit mit impliziten Staatsschulden – Leitbild oder Irrlicht?“ von Jan Priewe. Hagen Krämer und Carl Christian von Weizsäcker vertreten in einer Replik eine andere Auffassung, im...