EU Member countries have shown different degrees of ambition to reach a budget position of ?close to balance or in surplus'. Differences in ambition can only partly be explained by the relative size of cyclical safety mar­gins or differences in the number of votes in the ECOFIN Council. It is...

In this paper we empirically analyze the macroeconomic detenninants of insolvencies in Germany since 1970. It is shown that the growth rate of insolvencies can be explained by changes in the rate of return to capital and by preceding changes in the money market interest rate and the inflation...

Die Entwicklung des nominalen Bruttosozialprodukts in den Jahren 1973 — 1981 steht in engem Zusammenhang mit der von der Deutschen Bundesbank gesteuerten Expansion der Zentralbankgeldmenge. Die Lohnpolitik hat einen erheblichen Einfluß darauf, ob der von der Bundesbank bereitgestellte Rahmen...