This paper deals with the coverage of long-term care (LTC) in Germany since the post-war period. Until the 1990s, long-term care was mainly a task of the family with means-tested, tax-financed care assistance as a last resort. In 1994, after two decades of political debate, the German parliament...

We investigate the impact of immigration on public budgets using administrative data from German districts (Kreise). While previous literature suggests that the fiscal benefits of migration depend on government spending responses to immigration, the local-level effects in Germany remain...

This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence for a continuous process of government centralization...

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ?fiscal equalisation? coincides with a smaller overall share...

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition in taxes and public inputs among local jurisdictions to analyze the incentive effects of fiscal equalization transfers. We find that a budget-compensated increase in the contribution rate to a system of fiscal equalization not only induces...

Die Studie untersucht die Verteilungssymmetrie zwischen Land und Kommunen im Kommunalen Finanzausgleich Schleswig-Holsteins. Anlass dieser Untersuchung sind die Anträge im Verfahren der kommunalen Verfassungsbeschwerde von drei der elf Kreise des Landes sowie der abstrakten Normenkontrolle der...

We set up a model to characterize the reaction functions of governments competing for mobile capital by simultaneously setting both the business tax rate as well as the level of provision of a productive public input. Using a rich data set of local jurisdictions, we then test the predictions of...

Berlin hat als Empfängerland des Länderfinanzausgleichs regelmäßig mehr als ein Drittel der Ausgleichsmasse erhalten. Am stärksten belastet ist Bayern, das gemeinsam mit Hessen gegen die Struktur des Länderfinanzausgleichs klagen möchte. Die Autorin schlägt vor, Berlin bereits bei der...

Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...

In der Klage der Länder Bayern und Hessen vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen den Länderfinanzausgleich spielt die Einwohnergewichtung der Stadtstaaten eine große Rolle. Es lässt sich zeigen, dass diese gerechtfertigt ist, weil die Einwohner von Stadtstaaten - wenn sie dem kommunalen...