Seit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/2009 sind die Staatsschulden in fast allen OECD-Ländern deutlich gestiegen. Die Europäische Schuldenkrise hat sich in den letzten Wochen wieder verschärft. Mit Zwangsanleihen und einmaligen Vermögensabgaben könnten Privathaushalte mit hohen...

Die japanische Wirtschaft zeigt nach der Natur- und Atomkatastrophe Erholungserscheinungen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist wieder kräftig gestiegen. Dazu haben nicht zuletzt staatliche Ausgabenprogramme beigetragen, die die binnenwirtschaftliche Nachfrage stützen. Allerdings hat sich dadurch die...

This paper will examine the sustainability of the central budget and its relation to the financial stability in the case of Indonesia. The standard model of fiscal sustainability is modified to cover some financial variables. The empirical estimates are done by employing several aspects of the...

In the context of the increasing budget deficit and public debt, on one hand, and the need to restore economic growth without compromising financial stability and fiscal sustainability on long term, on the other hand, governments must undertake severe measures concentrated especially on...

In this paper we analyze the influence that incentives play in the timing of the transition to retirement in Spain. We use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2006 (CSWH “Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales”, in Spanish) to construct incentive measures from the Social Security...

Self-governments are given new tasks without guaranteeing resources for their completion, an example of which is lowering the school obligation age.There are also some savings of the state budget at the expense of territorial selfgovernment. All these and other changes, including those planned...

Staatliche Schulden sind in aller Munde. Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise Europas ist nicht zuletzt eine Krise staatlicher und kommunaler Verschuldung. In Deutschland rücken neben den Schulden von Bund und Ländern auch die Verpflichtungen der Kommunen wieder ins Zentrum der Betrachtung. Mit...

This paper uses cross country regression analysis on a large set of countries to consider two hypotheses. The first is that increased public debt as a percentage of the economy reduces confidence in financial institutions. The second is that increased public debt relative to the economy lowers...

This research tries to assess the dependents and Long Term Care costs for next years in Spain. To do this, it has been taken account data from the Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status and population forecasts estimated by INE, the legal rules passed between 2006 and 2008, and...