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Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size … and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public …, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and …
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Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size … and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public …, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040404
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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fill this gap, we conducted a survey among 2,000 representatively chosen German citizens. Our findings suggest that 61% of …
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This paper explores the factors behind the time path of real spending and revenue in the West German states from 1975 to 2004. The empirical approach stresses robustness and takes into account a large set of economic and political variables. Our results suggest that common economic factors and,...
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This paper provides background information and basic descriptive statistics for a representative survey of the German … population conducted on our behalf by GfK in the first quarter of 2013. The survey addresses important topics in fiscal policy …
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The German Federal Constitutional Court has ordered a revision of public budgets following the correct interpretation of the German debt brake. The debt brake is an obstacle to necessary public investment needed for ecological transformation of areas such as housing construction and education....
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Der Schuldenstand des deutschen Staates wächst in der Pandemie auf voraussichtlich 2,7 Billionen Euro im Jahr 2022. Der Zenit der Schuldenstandquote wird bereits Ende dieses Jahres mit 75 Prozent erreicht werden. Von den 650 Milliarden zusätzlichen Staatsschulden während der Corona-Krise...
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The EU's Lisbon strategy of 2000 (renewed in 2005) calls for substantial improvements in the quality and sustainability of public finance. In this context, the current study concentrates on the growth potential of public expenditures. National Reform Programs are analyzed in order to draw...
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