Am 30. August stellte Staatssekretär Wolf-Michael Catenhusen vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF) die Buchfassung des ersten Berichts zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung in Deutschland vor.1 Die nachstehendeKurzfassung des Einleitungskapitels gibt wichtige Ergebnisse des...

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...

We use a two-country model with a central bank maximizing union-wide welfareand two fiscal authorities minimizing comparable, but slightly differentcountry-wide losses. We analyze the rivalry between the three authorities inseven static games. Comparing a homogeneous with a heterogeneous...