State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide opportunities for a more flexible and market-based provision of public services. At the same time, they may impair fiscal transparency and offer politicians discretion in the presence of strict fiscal rules if these only constrain the core udget. Using a...

Der erstmals vorgelegte Bundesländerindex der Stiftung Familienunternehmen untersucht die Standortqualitäten der deutschen Bundesländer. Das ZEW Mannheim hat unter Leitung von Professor Friedrich Heinemann eine Vielzahl von Einzelindikatoren betrachtet und gewichtet. Damit können die...

This paper aims to raise the awareness and knowledge about state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Germany - a sizable but often ignored part of the overall public sector which the authors of this ZEW expert brief, therefore, label the "other government" - to facilitate an informed debate about the...

Der erstmals vorgelegte Bundesländerindex der Stiftung Familienunternehmen untersucht die Standortqualitäten der deutschen Bundesländer. Das ZEW Mannheim hat unter Leitung von Professor Friedrich Heinemann eine Vielzahl von Einzelindikatoren betrachtet und gewichtet. Damit können die...

This paper aims to raise the awareness and knowledge about state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Germany - a sizable but often ignored part of the overall public sector which the authors of this ZEW expert brief, therefore, label the "other government" - to facilitate an informed debate about the...

Since the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991 expectations on the new European currency could possibly influence European interest rates. The focus of this paper is both on the theoretical and empirical analysis of the link between European Monetary Union (EMU) and German...

In Germany, the medium-term financial planning (Mifrifiʺ) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study scrutinizes the experience of the German Bund with more than thirty years of financial planning. In the first step, the paper explores the potential normative and political-economic...

This study analyzes the sensitivity of US giving to both business cycle fluctuations and trend growth. With tax revenues as a point of reference, US giving constitutes a relatively stable source of revenue. Total giving is characterized by a business cycle volatility which is comparable to the...