German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat im Dezember 2014 das geltende Erbschaftsteuerrecht in Deutschland als verfassungswidrig eingestuft. Demnach sei die bestehende steuerliche Verschonung betrieblichen Vermögens im Falle einer Erbschaft oder Schenkung angesichts des bisherigen Ausmaßes und der...

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

In the last decades, the majority of OECD countries has experienced a continuous increase in public debt. The European debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re-evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in...