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)....

Die Auswirkungen der demographischenEntwicklung auf die öffentlichen Finanzenwerden seit geraumer Zeit sowohl aufnationaler als auch auf internationalerEbene intensiv diskutiert. In Deutschlandist die Bundesregierung bereits heute gesetzlichverpflichtet, über die mittel- undlangfristigen...

The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research results about the existence of superior economic and financial order acting within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types...

The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research about the existence of superior economic and financial order within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types of energy like...

The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. We develop a model including multiple public goods and taxes and derive consistent measures of the...

Der Beitrag analysiert die Kapitalstrukturpolitik der größten börsennotierten Unternehmenin Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung des Einflusses sowohl ihrer Kapitalgeberals auch der Informationsintermediäre Finanzanalysten und Rating-Agenturen.Der Arbeitskreis hat dazu eine explorative...