Eine der wichtigsten wirtschaftspolitischen Fragen des China der neunziger Jahre ist die Beziehung zwischen Zentrale und Regionen. Ursache ist die weit verbreitete Perzeption, daß zum einen sich die fiskalische Position des Zentralstaates stetig verschlechtert habe, und daß zum anderen die...

Public pension programmes in many OECD countries are in difficulties. With anageing population, and declining participation of working age men in paid work,existing pension arrangements are far too costly in many countries, both now and inthe future. This paper examines the evidence as to...

The goal of this paper is to examine the shape of the Laffer curve quantitativelyin a simple neoclassical growth model calibrated to the US as well as to the EU-15 economy. We show that the US and the EU-15 area are located on the left side of their labor and capital tax Laffer curves, but the...

In the last few years it has been possible to observe decreasing interest margins forGerman universal banks. At the same time, institutions increasingly moved partof their business from interest to fee-earning activities. This study analyzes thedeterminants of non-interest income and its impact...

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist Dieter Schneeloch gewidmet, mit dem mich eine nunbald 30-jährige fachliche Zusammenarbeit und eine daraus entstandene persönlicheFreundschaft verbinden. Als ich die ehrenvolle Einladung erhielt, an einerFestschrift zu seinen Ehren mitzuwirken, habe ich daher sofort...

Central bank policymakers are not primarilyrandom number generators.1 Reading boththe financial press and the work of academics,however, one might get the opposite impression.Reporters (and the readers of their stories) seem toattach considerable importance to each Federal OpenMarket Committee...

Recent attempts to incorporate optimal fiscal policy into NewKeynesian models subject to nominal inertia, have tended to assume that policymakers are benevolent and have access to a commitment technology. A separateliterature, on the New Political Economy, has focused on real economies...

Die rechtliche Beurteilung der Verwendung des Gewinns von Zentralbanken bewegtsich im Überschneidungsbereich von:§ Währungsrecht§ Finanzverfassungsrecht und§ FinanzpolitikRechtliche Bedenken ergeben sich imWesentlichen aus den verfassungsrechtlichenVorgaben für die Staatsfinanzierung sowie...

This paper explores the complexities of government financial management in China andexamines the nature of the recent Public Finance Framework reform in that country. Weargue that this Public Finance Framework reform is not just the latest idea in a centrallydominated reform agenda (and a...

In recent decades the new institutional economics has redrawn attention to the significance of state sponsored and regulated institutions, organisations, laws, rules, customs and culturally conditioned behaviour for the promotion of long term economic development (Menard and Shirley, 2005)....