This paper is focused on the options for reducing the U.S. fiscal deficit in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The first part of the paper is devoted to an assessment of the economic outlook and the impact of the financial crisis on the medium-term fiscal balance of the federal government....

Seit Jahren verfolgt das Land Berlin einen strikten Sparkurs. Vorübergehend wurde er durch das Desaster der Bankgesellschaft Berlin unterbrochen. Dennoch reichten die Sparmaßnahmen nicht aus, die Haushaltsfehlbeträge aus eigener Kraft auf ein vertretbares Maß zurückzuschrauben. Deshalb ist...

In recent years, a lot of rules concerning government expenditures as well as tax revenues were changed in Germany. Government expenditures in relation to GDP were reduced, income tax rates were lowered and the budget deficit declined. The structure of government expenditures changed in favor of...

This paper analyzes German and Spanish fiscal policy using simple policy rules. We choose Germany and Spain, as both are Member States in the European Monetary Union (EMU) and underwent considerable increases in public debt in the early 1990s.We focus on the question, how fiscal policy behaves...