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Fiscal consolidation in Greek and German local governments differs for many reasons. While some German local governments experienced a long period of austerity, driven by economic decline and federal and state measures, the global financial crisis and "troika" programme caused the need for harsh...
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Over 2010-2016, municipal debt in Germany crowded out private investment worth 1 percent of GDP. Forced to lend to municipalities by their statutes, local public banks compensated for declining municipal-debt yields by charging higher rates to firms in Germany's locally segmented credit markets....
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This book, edited and researched by experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), looks at fiscal adjustment plans in advanced economies, comparing the planned or projected reductions in debts and deficits to the actual outcomes. It also looks at whether spending exceeded expectations or...
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In most rich democracies one finds a tendency for the share in public finance that is available for discretionary spending to shrink. This is because tax revenues do not keep pace with simultaneous increases in fixed expenditures and growing pressures for fiscal consolidation. The present paper...
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Die Haushaltskonsolidierung hat seit geraumer Zeit eine hohe Priorität. Sie ist auch als mittelfristiges Ziel im … Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt fest verankert. Neben dieser angebotspolitischen Ausrichtung der Finanzpolitik bleibt aber auch die … Steuersenkungen zunichte gemacht werden. Würde dagegen die Finanzpolitik im Abschwung, um eine Erhöhung des Defizits zu verhindern …
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