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the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative …
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Based on Austria's fiscal stance in 1995, we compute the generational accounts for currently living as well as future generations. The results reveal the existence of an enormous intergenerational imbalance in favor of currently living generations. Total public sector liabilities may be more...
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We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...
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Die Auswirkungen einer staatlichen Verschuldung auf das Wirtschaftswachstum werden im Rahmen eines erweiterten neoklassischen Wachstumsmodells mit AK-Technologie analysiert. Der Staat verfolgt das Ziel einer festen Defizitquote und einer langfristig konstanten Schuldenquote. In diesem Fall gibt...
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Monetary policy and fiscal policy are connected in various ways. This is why the adoption of the Euro as a common European currency has been accompanied by the setup of the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact, a framework for the coordination of the EU countries' fiscal policies. In this...
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Die Arbeit untersucht die bestehenden Budgetregeln in Deutschland und stellt zwei aktuelle Reformvorschläge vor, die Schweizer Schuldenbremse und die Schuldenschranke des Sachverständigenrats. Investitionen nach dem Haushaltsrecht werden mit dem Nettoinvestitionsbegriff verglichen und auf ihre...
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Seit 1970 hat die Staatsverschuldung in Deutschland dramatisch zugenommen. Weder die Vorkehrungen zur Begrenzung der Staatsverschuldung im Grundgesetz noch der Europäische Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt haben den Anstieg der Verschuldung eindämmen können. Derzeit führt der konjunkturelle...
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EMU driven interest rate convergence has led to a significant reduction of borrowing costs for some European governments in the second half of the nineties. The paper deals with the possible consequences for deficit behaviour. Although the impact of interest rates on deficits is a crucial...
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This paper assesses the interactions of horizontal fiscal equalisation schemes with debt policy by sovereign regional governments. Local public goods are either financed by debt or taxation. A horizontal equalisation scheme eleviates regional public revenue disparities under horizontal and...
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This paper contains an econometric analysis using country level panel data of 23 OECD countries for the period 1990 - 2000, extending existing empirical work, and more specifically work on the impact of privatization on public deficit, the impact on public debt and the impact on other...
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