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how the actual size of the public capital stock should be measured. The authors state that the focus should be on the … development of gross capital stock. Sebastian Dullien and Katja Rietzler argue that, while the net public capital stock probably … understates the productively available capital stock, the gross figures overestimate it. No matter how one looks at it, Germany …
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Die Infrastrukturinvestitionen nehmen seit Jahren ab. Insbesondere die Gemeinden haben drastisch weniger investiert, nicht wegen eines geringeren Bedarfs, sondern wegen erheblicher Finanzprobleme in der Vergangenheit. Über den langen Zeitraum sind auch Planungs- und Genehmigungskapazitäten...
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We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...
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To what extent do bond market reactions to an unexpected deficit shock depend on state-specific politics? To answer this question, we calculate German state bond spreads over government benchmark paper using information from Datastream for the period 2006-2010. We test for a variety of...
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We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1992–2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an...
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Kein EU-Land investiert so wenig in seine öffentliche Infrastruktur wie Deutschland. Im europäischen Durchschnitt wurden seit 2000 jährlich etwa 3,7% des BIP für Straßen, Schulbau und andere staatliche Investitionen aufgewendet. Deutschland lag mit durchschnittlich 2,1% deutlich darunter....
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In Capital in 21st century, Thomas Piketty criticizes Marxian theory and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit …
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This paper addresses the question if physical infrastructure and personnel infrastructure (i.e. human capital) are … infrastructures in East Germany have a positive impact. Contrarily, human capital causes larger output effects in West German than in …
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Since the new German federal government has imposed tight fiscal policy restrictions on itself, a pragmatic approach is needed to finance the spending requirements of the transformation. The financing instruments mentioned in the coalition agreement appears to be suitable in principle for...
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In der Debatte um die Schuldenbremse bildet sich zunehmend ein Konsens für eine Reform heraus. Zuletzt versuchten Feld et al. (2024) den häufig vorgetragenen Kritikpunkt zu entkräfteten, die Schuldenbremse behindere staatliche Investitionen. Die verwendete synthetische Kontrollmethode...
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