Regional fiscal equalization in Germany aims to reduce fiscal disparities by allocating financial resources to less … channels of fiscal equalization in East and West Germany. Particularly, I find higher effects in right-wing CDU/CSU preferring …

the budget balance. The results show that stock-flow adjustments increased before elections. In Germany, stock … outside the core budget. Chapter 6 describes special funds in Germany and elaborates upon the purposes for which special funds …. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Stock-Flow-Adjustments vor Wahlen angestiegen sind. In Deutschland wurden große Stock …

this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment from Germany. The first hypothesis is that fiscal redistribution …

actually favors stabilization. In an empirical analysis for Germany, the paper adds support for the finding of significant … regional stabilization by fiscal flows. The results indicate that about 17 % of GDP variation across West Germany's states has … been removed by fiscal flows during the last two decades. Thus, in Germany where the fiscal federalism is criticised for …