In Reaktion auf das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom Dezember 2014 hat der Bundestag am 24.6.2016 ein reformiertes Erbschaft- und Schenkungssteuergesetz verabschiedet. Diesem hat der Bundesrat bislang nicht zugestimmt, weil mehrere Länder Mindereinnahmen befürchten. In der Tat würden...

Looking back, the debt brake for the German federal government's budget seems a great success story: The targets for net borrowing were met with a wide margin each year, the budget was consolidated extremely fast since 2010 and the debt brake served as a role model for the Fiscal Compact at the...

Both the German federal as well as the general government recorded a surplus for the fourth time in a row in 2017. The fast consolidation after the Great Recession coincided with the transition period for the full introduction of the federal debt brake, which is sometimes interpreted as...

Looking back, the debt brake for the German federal government's budget seems a great success story: The targets for net borrowing were met with a wide margin each year, the budget was consolidated extremely fast since 2010 and the debt brake served as a role model for the Fiscal Compact at the...

Both the German federal as well as the general government recorded a surplus for the fourth time in a row in 2017. The fast consolidation after the Great Recession coincided with the transition period for the full introduction of the federal debt brake, which is sometimes interpreted as...

This IMK Study is a documentation of the IMK's macro-econometric model of the German economy. Currently the model includes 48 behavioural equations, which are usually specified as error-correction equations, and 61 definitions. The model is based on seasonally unadjusted quarterly national...