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Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...
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Through an intertemporal budget constraint, jurisdictions may gain advantages in tax and spending competition by 'competing' on debt. While the existing spatial econometric literature focuses on tax and spending competition, very little is known about spatial interaction via public debt. This...
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Through an intertemporal budget constraint, jurisdictions may gain advantages in tax and spending competition by 'competing' on debt. While the existing spatial econometric literature focuses on tax and spending competition, very little is known about spatial interaction via public debt. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238832
In this paper, we utilise data from a German population survey to test the validity of the Ricardian equivalence theorem (RET). In 2013, 2,000 representatively chosen people were asked whether they have altered their consumption and saving behaviour in response to the significant increase in...
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Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size …
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We analyze the sustainability of public finances in the 16 states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an …
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Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …
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Germany introduced a new fiscal rule, the ‘debt brake’, after the Global Financial Crisis and since then experienced a … the current crisis in Germany illustrate the intended effects of fiscal rules very well. Debt ratios are reduced during … important for Germany and other economies to repeat the reduction in the debt to GDP ratio in order to be prepared for the next …
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