Die Finanzmarkt- und Staatsschuldenkrise hat zu verschiedenen Kriseninterventionen geführt. Fiskalisch wurde im Rahmen des Europäischen Finanzstabilisierungsmechanismus (EFSM) eine Zweckgesellschaft zur Finanzierung insolventnaher Euro-Mitgliedstaaten gegründet, für die die Einzelstaaten mit...

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on...

This paper sets out to provide an introduction to two sets of questions, and to some relevant literature that has tried to answer them. The first set of questions concern what determines growth in low-income countries, and how the answers are conditioned by the history of fiscal policy design...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic challenges created by a surge in aid inflows. It develops an analytical framework for examining possible policy responses to increased aid, in terms of absorption and spending of aid - where the central bank controls absorption through monetary policy...