We analyse the effects of interest rate variations on the rates of capacity utilisation, capital accumulation and profit in a simple post-Kaleckian distribution and growth model. This model gives rise to different potential accumulation regimes depending on the values of the parameters in the...

Currently fiscal policies in Germany seem to be in a very comfortable position and the German Debt Brake is regarded as an institutional precondition for this success and has been exported to the Euro area in the guise of the Fiscal Compact. In this paper we scrutinize German fiscal policies and...

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...