We investigate the bilateral relationship between government budget balances and current account balances for Portugal and Germany. We find that the response of the current account balance to the budget balance is greater in Portugal than in Germany. On the other hand, the response of the budget...

Fiscal austerity has not led to a return of confidence and it is not at all certain that the current crisis strategy can be sustained politically and will eventually succeed. Government bonds of crisis-hit countries have lost their safe asset status and high risk premiums are impairing monetary...

Seit Jahren hat in Deutschland die Kreditfinanzierung öffentlicher Ausgaben eine miserable Presse. Die Kampagne hat zumindest in formaler Hinsicht Früchte getragen: Das Grundgesetz enthält seit 2009 (anscheinend) strikte Vorschriften, um Budgetdefiziten einen Riegel vorzuschieben. Jedoch...

The controversy about sovereign debt cuts loomed prominently throughout crisis in the European Union (EU), as the EU legal rules were viewed to impose strict limitations on debt restructuring involving public creditors due to moral hazard concerns enshrined in the legal ban on bailouts. This...